Human Society and its Environment K-6

EDMT5534

Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) is a vital Key Learning Area in the primary curriculum. The knowledge, understandings, skills and values inherent in HSIE K-6 provide opportunities for the primary learner to explore cultures and social systems and structures as well as the disciplines of history and geography. This unit of study, strongly aligned with the NSW Institute of Teachers Graduate Teacher Standards, provides an overview of the NSW Board of Studies HSIE K-6 syllabus documents, various policies and the new Australian curriculum. You will learn about the central concepts, modes of enquiry and structure of HSIE and consider research-based pedagogies for teaching HSIE in a primary classroom.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Postgraduate

Credit points: 4

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: EDMT5534

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: No

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