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Rationale

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This program aims to prepare undergraduates in the theory and practice of teaching History, Geography and Economics/Commerce Business Studies within the Key Learning Area; Human Society and Its Environment.

The program draws on:

  • research findings concerning the types of knowledge that the HSIE teacher requires to assist students in developing competencies and skills in teaching subjects in HSIE. These findings provide the theoretical framework for the program.
  • The 'real world' of teaching and learning, schools and teachers work with the opportunity to enter the domain of the practicing teacher. Such information provides students with a sense of varying school cultures, insights into beliefs about, and orientations to, teaching, lesson planning, programming and teaching strategies development and the process of professional socialization involved in teaching Geography, History, Commerce, Business Studies and Economics.

 


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