Belonging
Area of Study: Belonging
AREA OF STUDY: * Explore and examine relationships between language and text and interrelationships among texts. * Synthesize ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. * Take into account context, purpose and register, text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary. * Perceptions and ideas of belonging/not belonging. * Personal, historical, cultural and social contexts. * Connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. * Experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding. * The potential for an individual to enrich or challenge a community/group. * Attitudes to belonging are modified over time. * Choices not to belong or barriers which prevent belonging * Sense of belonging to or exclusion from the text and the world it represents. * Perspectives are given voice or are absent from a text.
KEY ASPECTS OF THE AOS: * Representations:
Representations refer to how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shape meaning and influence responses. These choices are influenced by a composer’s sense of belonging. How the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations in texts of people, relationships, ideas, places, events and societies. Assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging. Whether the text invites a responder to belong to the text and the world it represents. * Perceptions:
How an individual’s perceptions of belonging or not belonging can vary and are shaped by their personal, cultural, historical and social context. The ways in which a responder perceives the world through texts. * Contextualization:
How the perspectives of the composer and the responder are shaped by personal, cultural, historical and social contexts, experiences and values. * Interrelationships:
The connections between texts
AREA OF STUDY: * Explore and examine relationships between language and text and interrelationships among texts. * Synthesize ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. * Take into account context, purpose and register, text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary. * Perceptions and ideas of belonging/not belonging. * Personal, historical, cultural and social contexts. * Connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. * Experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding. * The potential for an individual to enrich or challenge a community/group. * Attitudes to belonging are modified over time. * Choices not to belong or barriers which prevent belonging * Sense of belonging to or exclusion from the text and the world it represents. * Perspectives are given voice or are absent from a text.
KEY ASPECTS OF THE AOS: * Representations:
Representations refer to how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shape meaning and influence responses. These choices are influenced by a composer’s sense of belonging. How the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations in texts of people, relationships, ideas, places, events and societies. Assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging. Whether the text invites a responder to belong to the text and the world it represents. * Perceptions:
How an individual’s perceptions of belonging or not belonging can vary and are shaped by their personal, cultural, historical and social context. The ways in which a responder perceives the world through texts. * Contextualization:
How the perspectives of the composer and the responder are shaped by personal, cultural, historical and social contexts, experiences and values. * Interrelationships:
The connections between texts