Year 11-13 - Key Areas of Learning: Health, Physical Education, Food and Nutrition, Family and Childcare
Key concepts in Making Meaning: Making a Difference
Socio-ecological perspective
In relation to health education, physical education, and home economics, students need to be able to:
- challenge perceptions and assumptions that influence their personal attitudes, values, and behaviours and those of society as a whole
- critically analyse determinants of health and examine their interrelationships in given situations
- evaluate ways in which laws, policies, and regulations contribute to an equitable society
- establish and justify priorities for action to enhance people's well-being in given situations.
Health promotion
In relation to health education, physical education, and home economics, students need to be able to:
- identify situations where people's well-being needs to be enhanced and analyse these needs through adopting a socio-ecological perspective
- identify positive outcomes in relation to the specified needs at individual, interpersonal, community, and societal levels
- plan to take individual or collective action to achieve these outcomes by using their personal skills and establishing supportive links with other people and/or organisations in the wider community
- take action, both personally and collectively
- reflect on and critically evaluate the processes used and the significance and consequences of the outcomes.
