Module 5: SACSA Framework

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Module 5SACSA Framework
Module 5 Slide 51 Equity through Learning Areas

• Equity through
• Learning Areas

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Introduction
Module 5 Slide 52 Equity through Learning Areas

• This Module focuses on an exploration of Learning
  Areas to identify ways in which the SACSA
  Framework supports genuinely inclusive
  curriculum, teaching and curriculum content about
  Equity.

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Purpose of the Module
Module 5 Slide 53 Equity through Learning Areas

• To develop an understanding of the way the
  Learning Areas have been transformed and
  redefined by the interweaving of the Essential
  Learnings, Equity Cross-curriculum Perspectives
  and Enterprise and Vocational Education.

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A Focus on Equity
Module 5 Slide 54 Equity through Learning Areas

• The SACSA Framework reaffirms a long held belief
  that education is central to the making of a
  fairer society.

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A Curriculum Perspective
Module 5 Slide 55 Equity through Learning Areas

• When curriculum favours those who already have
  the largest share of financial and cultural
  resources it contributes to the maintenance of
  the unequal distribution of wealth and power in
  society.
• (General Introduction, SACSA Framework, p 18)

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Module 5 Slide 56 Equity through Learning Areas

• In the SACSA Framework the Learning Areas have
  been transformed and redefined by interweaving
  the Essential Learnings, Equity Cross-curriculum
  Perspectives and Enterprise and Vocational
  Education through every level of the framework.
• (General Introduction, SACSA Framework, p 25)

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Module 5 Slide 57 Equity through Learning Areas

• Key Ideas comprise the fundamental concepts of
  the Learning Areas. The following examples
  demonstrate how educators can focus learners
  attention on both
• Learning Areas content
• The Three Es
• -Essential Learnings
• -Enterprise and Vocational Education
• -Equity Cross-curriculum Perspectives

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Module 5 Slide 59 Equity through Learning Areas

• Discuss the annotations in the examples of the
  Key Ideas, and identify other opportunities for
  teaching Equity Cross -curriculum Perspectives
  and Enterprise and Vocational Education.
• Identify the key words and phrases (Eg social and
  cultural), that provide opportunities to examine
  different equity perspectives.

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Module 5 Slide 510 Equity through Learning Areas

• Annotate the Outcomes and examples of evidence of
  either English or Maths using the annotation of
  the Key Ideas (Resources 5.2 5.3) as a model.
• Look for key words and phrases such as
• purpose (eg Whose purpose and in whose interest
  is the text constructed?)
• critical understanding (eg Whose voices are
  heard? Who is included and excluded?)

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Equity through the Learning Areas
Module 5 Slide 511 Equity through Learning Areas

• To enable all learners to achieve the
  Developmental Learning Outcomes and curriculum
  standards, educators need to construct curriculum
  that is inclusive, recognises and builds upon
  learner diversity and provides every learner with
  learning and assessment experiences which
  optimise their opportunities.

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Something more Teachers work
Module 5 Slide 512 Equity through Learning Areas

• In good teaching, the improvisation goes beyond
  boundaries an enthusiasm or concern, a capacity
  to judge the right moment, which sparks a
  learning process, inspires a pupil, or
  communicates a love for knowledge and respect for
  the learner
• The interests is a learners and behind the
  learner, the societys collective interest in the
  new generation learning well. Good teaching,
  thus, involves a gift relation. It is a practice
  founded on public rather than a private interest.
• (R.W. Connell 1996)