Asia Literacy – imperatives for the Australian Classroom

1. Asia Literacy – imperatives for the Australian Classroom RMIT 2014

2. Why Asia??? • Imperatives: • Moral • Economic • Professional

3. Morally….. Be a good neighbour - we live in the region! What are the countries of Asia?

4. Economically – we are tied to Asia

5. Professionally – it is in our curriculum “India, China and other Asian nations are growing and their influence is increasing. Australians need to become ‘Asia literate’, engaging and building strong relationships with Asia.” Goal 2: All young Australians become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens “active and informed citizens…are able to relate and communicate across cultures, especially in relation to cultures and countries of the Asia-Pacific.”

6. Australian Curriculum • General Capabilities www.australiancurriculum.edu.au

7. Intercultural Understanding • Includes the skills to critically reflect on one’s own culture as well as positive, cooperative and respectful interactions between people of diverse cultural backgrounds at both an institutional and interpersonal level. • Can be measured by the acquisition of critical cultural awareness, culturally respectful attitudes and positive skills for interacting across cultural groups. • Focuses on the interaction between people by developing an understanding of self in relation to others.

8. Standpoints of intercultural understanding

9. Australian Curriculum – Cross Curriculum Priorities • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia • Sustainability www.australiancurriculum.edu.au

10. Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia • Organising Themes • Asia and its diversity • Achievements and contributions of the peoples of Asia • Asia-Australia engagement

11. Asia literacy foundational and deep knowledge, skills and understandings about the histories, geographies, societies, cultures, literatures and languages of the diverse countries that make up our part of the world

12. Organising Themes/Ideas

13. Inspirations Where do these images come from? What period of time do they come from?

14. Where did it come from? Write down the origin of each invention on your sheet.

15. Organising Ideas

17. Culture as layers

18. Culture is like an apple • The Skin – Observed: Language, Food, Architecture, Fashion, Art • The Flesh – Norms & Values: Beliefs, attitudes and conventions • The Core – Basic Assumptions: Unquestioned behaviour - tradition

19. Iceberg of culture

20. Layers, Iceberg and Apples Select the model you resonate with most. Discuss what resonates and why. HumanGraph

21. What’s the news across the nation…. http://www.netvibes.com/studies-of-asia #India_Newsfeeds #Japanese_newsfeeds #Indonesia_Newsfeeds #China_news Asian Newspapers online http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/asian-newspapers.htm

22. Organising Ideas

23. What is an Asia Literate school?

24. Studies of Asia wikispace studiesofasia.wikispaces.com