Sub questions:
Lesson | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
1 | What is a Refugee? | What is the public perception? What are the real laws? | What are the laws in regards to refugee children | What does Australia do with child refugees? | ||
2 | Who are they? | What is the media portrayal? | What is the legal process of refugee children | What are human rights? | ||
3 | Why are they here and where are they from? | What does the Australian legal system do with refugees? | Who are the stakeholders in refugee programs | What are child refugee rights in Australia |
Description:
Through the curriculum initiative and topic of civics and citizenships and human rights this unit will answer the key question, "Does the Australian legal system adequately protect and enforce the rights of child refugees?"
Within the unit are three learning experiences, which will aim to enhance the inquiry based learning of the student through the education of human rights, refugees and the law.
Refugees arrive in Travnik, central Bosnia, during...
A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone.
The RefugeesThe three learning experiences are:
A research task involving De Bonos thinking hats and group work;
A group and individual research task that involves, media and public perception
An individual research task that requires students to respond with the use of secondary sources.
Each learning experience involves at least 40 minutes contact time and may require further time from future lessons.
Context
This unit plan is designed for year 12 Legal studies students.
The investigation of legal issues is the focus for inquiry-based learning that provides students with the opportunities to learn using topical, relevant and authentic contexts (Queensland studies Authority , 2013) such as child refugees in Australia.
Appendix A (Golis, 2008)
Learning experience one 1.0 - Group research task, with the use of DeBonos thinking hats.
Contextual comment:
This group activity must be performed...