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  Textiles in the Australian Curriculum

General Capabilities & Cross Curriculum Priorities 

The Australian curriculum is designed to educate learners in what it takes to be confident and creative individuals that become active informed citizens. The Australian Curriculum sets goals for what all students should learn as they advance throughout their school journey (ACARA, 2011). The Curriculum was designed to prepare young Australians for the future world in which they will endeavor to learn. The Curriculum sets admiring ambitions for all students to know what they should know and be able to do (ACARA, 2022).

The new Curriculum review completed in 2022 sees improvements made to the foundation to year 10by refining, realigning and decluttering content. The Curriculum also provides schools, teachers and parents a clear perception on what students should be learning. The Curriculum is set out for all states, territories, and non-government education authorities to be responsible in their delivery of the curriculum. This includes decisions about timeframes, classroom practices and resources (ACARA, 2022).

The foundation to year 10 curriculum prepares curriculum content, attainment guidance for each subject, malleability for educators to customize student learning, needs and their interests. The F- 10 curriculum has eight learning areas:

-English

-Math's

-Science

-Humanities and Social Sciences 

-The Arts

-Technologies

-Health and Physical Education

Languages

There are seven General Capabilities:

 -Literacy

-Numeracy

-Information and Communication Technology

- Critical and Cognitive Thinking 

-Personal and Social Capability

-Ethical Understanding

-Intercultural Understanding

And three Cross-Curriculum Priorities:

-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Cultures

-Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia

- Sustainability

The Australian Curriculum is set out in a three dimensional setting that incorporates learning areas, general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities. The three dimensions underpin the knowledge, understanding and skills that all young Australians will need to learn and prosper for the future (ACARA, 2022). 

Intercultural Understanding is a crucial element In textile technology as it brings together  three sub elements that include that of: reflection of relationships between cultures and their identities, examining cultural perspectives and worldwide views and, explore the influence of cultures on interactions (ACARA, 2022).  In the classroom this could be seen as a perspective of ethical fashion where students are to investigate what is ethical fashion is and why it is an umbrella term with in the industry and why its important to understand the meaning behind it. Another idea is that students build their knowledge and understanding of culture by developing multiple perspectives using and implementing resources in a design solution. 

 Students use resources that are made from different products and fibers everyday at school that are from many parts of this world. For example Australia's biggest import of felt comes from China. It's also known to be the oldest fabric to mankind dating back to 6500BC, felt was discovered by Hero Urnamman, and the mountain people of Tibet ancestrally used felt due to its insulative properties  (Sewport, 2022). 

Culture is an important aspect in the educational context not just in textile technology it is used in many other learning areas that are required to engage and communicate responsively, develop multiple perspectives and develop empathy for all cultures (ACARA, 2022).

Cross-Curriculum Priority-Sustainability  

Sustainability is an important aspect worldwide. In the current educational context within the Australian Curriculum, sustainability addresses the continuing priorities and capacity of earth to maintain all lives.

I have created a small resource using Adobe express that I could incorporate into a lesson on Ethical Fashion. Follow the below link.

What is Ethical Fashion


Five Teaching Resources.

-Kahoot- Play a game of Kahoot related to fabrics and textiles. 
-Pinterest - Find cool designs or even pin your own.
-YouTube - Play clips on how to sew, or watch documentaries on ethical practices.
-Pattern exercises - Using scrap fabric and other materials that students can practice basic sewing techniques on.
- Blogs - Students can access blogs online that underpin many textile fanatics. 

HPE-Design Technology 
The connection between Health and Physical Education and Design and Technologies Syllabuses is Food and Nutrition.  Food and Nutrition is and important aspect of students health and wellbeing. Home Economics evolves student's capacity to make decisions, solve problems and respond critically and creatively to practical concerns of Individuals, Families, and Communities in all local and global contexts. Components drawn from Home economics extracted from both HPE and Technologies within the Curriculum (ACARA, 2022).







References

ACARA, (2011). Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority: An Overview for Parents. https://docs.acara.edu.auresources/The_Australian_Curriculum_an_overview_for_parents_pdf 

ACARA, (2022). Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority: What's changed in the new Australian Curriculum?. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources/stories/curriculum-changes 

Sewport Support Team (2022) What is Felt Fabric: Properties, How it is made and where. https//sewport.com/fabric-directory/felt-fabric 

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