Embedding the Arts in the Humanities and Social Studies
The humanities and social studies (HASS) curriculum area is a learning area in the primary curriculum encompassing the disciplines of history, geography, civics and citizenship, business studies and economics. HASS equips students with the knowledge, unde
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Learning Objectives
• to consider what HASS means and understand its place in the primary curriculum; • to introduce history’s conceptual framework and major concepts; and • to understand the integral role that arts and creativity can play in generating and expressing historical knowledge.
Gather round people let me tell you a story An eight year long story of power and pride British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiarri Were opposite men on opposite sides Vestey was fat with money and muscle Beef was his business, broad was his door Vincent was lean and spoke very little He had no bank balance, hard dirt was his floor From little things big things grow From little things big things grow Gurindji were working for nothing but rations Where once they had gathered the wealth of the land Daily the pressure got tighter and tighter Gurindju decided they must make a stand They picked up their swags and started off walking At Wattie Creek they sat themselves down
© The Author(s) 2020 R. Gibson, R. Ewing, Transforming the Curriculum Through the Arts, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52797-6_11
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11 Embedding the Arts in the Humanities and Social Studies
Now it don't sound like much but it sure got tongues talking Back at the homestead and then in the town From little things big things grow From little things big things grow From little things, big things grow. (Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly, 1991, first four verses)
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Introduction
Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly’s iconic song, From little things, big things grow, tells the story of Vincent Lingiari and The Gurindiji Strike, and traces the events leading up to the Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act in 1976. The song is a story about injustice, activism and Aboriginal rights and conveys ideas about Country, history, citizenship, democracy and culture. It is a protest song that highlights ‘people power’ and what happens when individuals stand up for what they believe in to bring about change. It also is a song that sets the stage for this chapter, capturing the essence and rationale for embedding the Arts in teaching history within the learning area of humanities and social sciences (HASS). The HASS curriculum area, also known in Australia as human society and its environment (HSIE) in New South Wales (NSW), and Studies of society and environment (SOSE) elsewhere, is a learning area in the primary curriculum encompassing the disciplines of history, geography, civics and citizenship, business studies and economics. Through the recent development of an Australian national curriculum, in HASS primary students have been introduced to the disciplines of history and geography, signalling a shift away from multidisciplinary and generic inquiry approaches in the classroom, to disciplinary-based inquiry, skills, concepts and tools. My own interest in the learning area of HASS, and specifically, history and geography, stems from teaching in both local and international primary classrooms, and from working as a HSIE K-6 curriculum consultant i
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