Capabilities

Capabilities, Critical and Creative Thinking

Critical and creative thinking capability aims to ensure that students develop:

  • understanding of thinking processes and an ability to manage and apply these intentionally
  • skills and learning dispositions that support logical, strategic, flexible and adventurous thinking
  • confidence in evaluating thinking and thinking processes across a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

Ref: Victorian Curriculum V2 Critical and Creative Thinking Rationale and Aims

Critical and Creative Thinking: Foundation - Level 10

Capabilities, Ethical Capability

The Ethical Capability curriculum aims to develop knowledge and skills that will enable students to:

    • identify, analyse, evaluate and respond to ethical issues, recognising areas of contestability
    • reflect on diverse ethical perspectives, including their own
    • engage with the challenges of managing ethical decision-making and actions for individuals and groups
    • cultivate open-mindedness and reasonableness.

Ref:  Victorian Curriculum V2 Ethical Capability Rationale and Aims

Ethical Capability: Foundation - Level 10

Capabilities, Intercultural Capability

The Intercultural Capability curriculum aims to develop the knowledge and skills that will enable students to:

  • demonstrate an awareness of the role culture plays in identity and a sense of belonging and inclusion in society
  • critically reflect on how community institutions and intercultural experiences influence attitudes, values and beliefs
  • recognise the importance of respect for and appreciation of cultural and worldview diversity for creating and maintaining a cohesive community
  • become responsible local, national and global citizens, living and working together in an interconnected world.

Ref: Victorian Curriculum V2 Intercultural Capability Rationale and Aims

Intercultural Capability: Foundation - Level 10

Capabilities, Personal and Social Capability

The Personal and Social Capability curriculum aims to develop the knowledge and skills that will enable students to:

  • recognise and manage emotional responses
  • support themselves and others to face personal and social challenges with resilience
  • build awareness of their personal strengths and interests and develop a sense of purpose and wellbeing
  • act with sensitivity towards others and recognise the importance of supporting diversity, engaging with different perspectives, and respecting human rights for creating a cohesive community
  • use interpersonal skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships and effective collaborations.

Ref:  Victorian Curriculum V2 Personal and Social Capability Rationale and Aims

Personal and Social Capability: Foundation - Level 6