Grade. 9:
Content areas:

• Human Rights issues during World War II
• Issues of our time: xenophobia and the Rwandan genocide

Skills:

• Critical thinking
• Working with evidence and sources
• Issues of heritage study
• Ability to synthesise and construct own interpretation based on evidence

Key issues:

• Prejudice, choices and responsibility, racism, discrimination, dictatorships and democracy; xenophobia; consequences of bystander behaviour; valuing diversity; respect; Human Rights

Grade 11:
Content area:

• The impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the of 19th and 20th Centuries, including the eugenics movement, on the ideas of ‘race’ and racism in Africa, the USA, Australia, Europe and in particular how this contributed to genocide in Nazi-Europe.

Skills:

• Critical thinking
• Working with evidence and sources
• Issues of heritage study
• Ability to synthesise and construct own interpretation based on evidence

Key issues:

• Prejudice, choices and responsibility, racism, discrimination, dictatorships and democracy; xenophobia; consequences of bystander behaviour; valuing diversity; respect; Human Rights
  

Grade 9: Learning Outcomes 2 and 3: covering issues of social and personal development;
Grade 10-12: Learning Outcomes 1 and 2 : covering issues of personal well being, identity, citizenship education, Human Rights, personal manifestos of action, social justice

• Languages
• Skills: Ability to read texts critically
• Areas: Stereotyping; propaganda

The programmes promote:

• an understanding of Human Rights:

Learners explore, through a study of the Holocaust as a case study of Human Rights abuses, how to:

• make responsible choices.
• make a positive contribution to their community
• develop as social activists
• adopt a critical and constructive approach to contemporary issues, e.g xenophobia

The programmes are designed in consultation with their educators so that the particular needs of the learners are accommodated.