Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences: Teaching & Learning Across Australia,
8th Edition

Part 1 – Context: the humanities and social sciences across Australia
1. The context for teaching and learning in humanities and social sciences
2. Humanities and social sciences in the Australian Curriculum

Part 2 – Teaching humanities and social sciences: key elements
3. Integrating the curriculum
4. Planning for critical inquiry
5. Planning for student learning
6. Assessment for student learning
7. Values, ethical understanding and controversial issues
8. Developing language and literacy
9. Developing digital literacy through HASS

Part 3 – Teaching humanities and social sciences: learning areas
10. History as a learning area
11. Teaching historical inquiry
12. Geography as a learning area
13. Teaching geographical inquiry
14. Teaching and learning economics and business
15. Teaching and learning for active and informed citizenship

Part 4 – Cross-curriculum priorities
16. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
17. Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
18. Sustainability

• Libby Tudball

  Libby Tudball is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University whose specialist areas are teacher education, civic and citizenship and teaching and learning in the humanities and social sciences. She works nationally and internationally in these research fields and in teacher professional learning and strategic planning for school improvement.

• Peter Brett

  Peter Brett is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Burnie. He teaches into two Humanities and Social Sciences education units in the B.Ed. (Primary) programme. His research interests centre on teaching and learning relating to citizenship education and history education, but also explore broader issues around high quality initial teacher education.

• Rob Gilbert

  Rob Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Queensland and an educational consultant with a special focus on curriculum development and change. A leader in research and development in social science education in Australia, he has published widely in this field as well as in curriculum development and in education for citizenship.

• Updated throughout with a focus on the current Australian Curriculum (version 9.0) published in May 2022 and explains the impact on teaching humanities and social sciences (HASS), and how the Australian Curriculum is connected to learning goals in The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration

• NEW general capabilities activities guide pre-service teachers to embedding the general capabilities in their HASS planning

• NEW key terms with margin definitions

• The broad scope of this text provides a valuable base for teaching humanities and social sciences to children from Foundation to Year 10, with practical examples across this range

• Key questions in the chapter overview give you a clear sense of what each chapter will cover and what to ask while reading the chapter. These questions are also reviewed in the end-of-chapter summaries

• Chapter opening snapshots and case studies with questions illustrate how the theory and concepts covered in the chapter might apply to real-world situations for both primary and secondary teaching

• 'Check your understanding' boxes include questions that allow pre-service teachers to assess and reflect on their own knowledge and understanding of chapter concepts. While reflection questions encourage pre-service teachers to think about their own connection with Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences

• Easily find relevant curriculum and standards content by navigating via the icons throughout, including GC for general capabilities, AC for ACARA quotes, CCP for cross-curricular priorities, and APST for Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

• Test knowledge and consolidate learning through activities at the end of every chapter, and discover high quality online educational resources to support you in the useful web-based teaching and learning resources annotated lists

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