The Essential Learnings Framework identifies and advocates the following values and purpoes:
Values
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Connectedness
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Resilience
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Achievement
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Creativity
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Integrity
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Responsibility
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Equity
Purposes that is learning to
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relate, participate and care
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live full, healthy lives
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create purposeful futures
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act ethically
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learn
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think, know and understand
The adoption of
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action learning in general
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and the use of insightful questioning in relation to both
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programmed knowledge and
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personal and shared activity and experience
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helps to underpin the exercise of these values, individually and collectively and the achievement of the purposes.
The Essential Learnings
Consider the following as derived from the notion of action learning and the implications for Essential Learnings.
The following table
contains a rough mapping of the major components of the Essential
Learnings framework onto the above model of the curriculum.
| Knowledge |
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Insight |
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Activity & Experience |
| Literacy
Numeracy Information Literacy Arts Literacy Exiting bodies of Knowledge
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Thinking
Reflective Thinking Pursuing Goals Personal Futures World Futures Responsibility |
Communicating
Social Responsibility Wellbeing Relating Participating Being Ethical
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