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Language & Cultural Studies
Inquiry: Interlinking language and culture Free
This page lightly explores different aspects of the link between language and culture as well as a soft introduction to exploring the 4 LCS concepts. The activities on this page are prompts designed to...
Language & Cultural Studies
Inquiry: Introducing Power Free
... all connect to the concept of Power in relation to language and culture. Students must explore all four concepts of Communication, Identities, Perspectives and Power within the LCS course as they...
Language & Cultural Studies
LCS resources & inspiration
What is the potential of this course in your school? Lots of ideas here which we will continue to add to; thank you to the LCS specialist Susan Stewart for such great suggestions and for her generosity...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 4: CP/PPS Deepening thinking
As students progress through your CP, they will have already heard words such as compare, contrast, evaluate, synthesise, imagine and predict in multiple areas. Not to mention areas such as critical and...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 2: LCS/PPS Cultural connection & understanding Free
This is the teacher page for Student Section Inquiry 2: Who am I with others?. What role does culture play in our lives? How do you connect what is happening directly around you with what is happening...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 5.1: LCS/PPS My relationship with language & culture
Language and Cultural Studies is founded on the fact that everyone has an individual relationship with language learning. Whether you are multilingual or monolingual, the aim of LCS is not about how good...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 4.1 RP/PPS The ethical and critical researcher
We could argue that the most important skill students can all leave school with, is not how much they can recall from our memories but how well they can discern what is true and what is not. In a world...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 2.3. CE/PPS Intercultural understanding
Community Engagement is such a rich context to develop all the PPS skill domain areas. Here we use the lens of Intercultural Understanding and civic and social engagement, empathy, social awareness and...
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Inquiry 7: How can thinking be part of success?
The transversal nature of skills across becomes more understandable when we talk about thinking skills. In this set of inquiries, we explore thinking skills how they might work transversally across your...
PPS 2025
Inquiry 3.1 RP/PPS Forming a position on an ethical dilemma 1
This inquiry is in the RP section but is equally helpful in PPS. In short, students must show they have a voice and hold a position on an ethical dilemma to get marks for Criterion C: Critical Thinking...