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Rights and Freedom: Overview

VCE History Unit 2 | Study 2: Challenge and change

Source: Left image - Police use dogs to attack a civil rights demonstrator during a march in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963. Encyclopædia Britannica (2019). Right image - People tend to antiapartheid protesters who were injured by police in Sharpeville, South Africa, on March 21, 1960. Encyclopædia Britannica (2019).

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Brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)

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Lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)

General Capabilities
Enduring Understandings

Students will understand how oppressions is formed through the means of government/social convention. Students will also understand how leaders, ideas, movements and events can transform a country from one of oppression into one of greater liberty and justice.

Essential Questions
  • How do governments control people?
  • Why do they control people?
  • How does an idea create a movement?
  • What circumstances lead to a popular movement?
  • How does a citizenry move against a powerful opposition?
  • What makes a good leader?
  • What morals and ethics underpin a successful movement?

Rights and Freedom | Overview: Keywords

Level 1Keywords
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Activism, Apartheid, Civil disobedience, Civil liberty, Civil rights, Human rights, Racism, Segregation

Rights and Freedom | Overview: Articles

Level 1 resourceArticles

Rights and Freedom | Overview: eBooks

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Rights and Freedom | Overview: Online resources

Challenge and Change | Overview: Curriculum alignment

Level 1Victorian Curriculum and Assessment AuthorityArea of Study 2: Challenge and change
  • "What were the significant causes of challenge to and change in existing political and social orders in the second half of the twentieth century?
  • How did the actions and ideas of popular movements and individuals contribute to change?
  • What impacts did challenge and change have on nations and people?"
Key knowledge
  • conditions and events that gave rise to the challenge and change to power
  • the ideas that influenced the challenge and brought about change
  • key individuals and/or groups involved in the movement for change
  • the methods employed by groups and individuals to implement change and express views, such as diplomacy, meetings and marches, civil disobedience, armed conflict, hijackings, bombings
  • the responses of established political and social orders, both positive and negative
  • conditions and events that gave rise to the challenge and change to power
  • the ideas that influenced the challenge and brought about change
  • key individuals and/or groups involved in the movement for change
  • the methods employed by groups and individuals to implement change and express views, such as diplomacy, meetings and marches, civil disobedience, armed conflict, hijackings, bombings
  • the responses of established political and social orders, both positive and negative the extent to which goals were achieved and change occurred
  • the short- and long-term consequences of particular events and movements
  • the key concepts that underpinned challenge and change in the period: decolonisation, nationalism, theocracy, self-determination, racism, sexism, feminism and egalitarianism.
Key skills
  • use questions to shape historical inquiry into arguments for change
  • explain the historical significance of particular movements, people and events
  • analyse continuity and change in particular contexts involving power relationships
  • explain the causes and consequences of movements and events
  • explain the beliefs, values and attitudes of people as reflected in primary sources
  • compare the perspectives of people from the period on political, economic and social change
  • compare historical interpretations about events of the period
  • construct arguments about the nature of particular social and cultural movements using primary sources and historical interpretations as evidence.

Victorian Certification of Education, History, Study Design 2016-2020 (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, 2015, p. 28-29.)

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