Teaching Democratic Values: Introduction

Level

Upper primary/Lower secondary

Curriculum Links

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Unit overview

‘Teaching Democratic Values’ is a unit of work for upper primary and lower secondary students. It uses extracts from the Australian Readers Discovering Democracy collections to focus on democratic values and principles such as freedom, responsibility, justice, respect for the land, leadership qualities, personal values and qualities, and tolerance, inclusion and diversity. Teaching and learning activities are designed to:

• explore the meanings of particular values in the text
• discuss and reflect on values dilemmas
• apply these values to other situations and contexts
• reflect on these values in relation to students' own lives.

The unit is structured as follows:

Overview | Notes for teachers 1 | Notes for teachers 2 | Notes for teachers 3 | Notes for teachers 4 |

Student handout 1 | Student handout 2 | Student handout 3 | Student handout 4 | Student handout 5 |

Student handout 6 | Student handout 7 | Student handout 8 | Student handout 9 | Student handout 10

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