ACHASSK147

The shared values of Australian citizenship and the formal rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens

Elaborations

• investigating how people become Australian citizens (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding)
• discussing the Australian citizenship pledge and comparing it to the former oath of allegiance to the monarch to explore notions of allegiance (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding)
• clarifying the formal rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship and comparing these to the rights and responsibilities of non-citizens (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
• exploring how laws protect human rights (for example, gender, disability, race and age discrimination law) (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
• exploring the experiences of people who have migrated to Australia and who have taken up Australian citizenship (for example, those of Asian heritage) (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)

(View this topic on www.australiancurriculum.edu.au )