" Combines personal, interpersonal and social knowledge and skills." Students are able to use the interactions with people, texts and the study of the curriculum to help them value and critically view their own world and other's cultures.
"Encourages students to make connects between their own worlds and the worlds of others." This allows students to communicate and empathise with others as well as to crictically analyse their own beliefs and attiitudes.
one-mindness and critical awareness, and supports new and postive intercultural behaviours."
The capabiltiy Intercultural Understanding is an essential inclusion in the curriculum of all Australian Christan and Public schools, due mainly to teaching the students of the 21st Century how to live in a multi-cultural society and who are being influenced by the globalisation of the world so have to become global citizens.
" The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but values." ( Dean Willam R. Inge, n.d.)
Rationale for the Inclusion
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