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11–12Modern History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Peace and conflict

The following options are suggestions only. Teachers may develop their own options to support student interests and abilities. Students may explore one option, part of an option or elements of the content as appropriate.

  • Conflict in Europe 1935–1945
  • Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951
  • The Cold War 1945–1991
  • The Arab–Israeli conflict 1948–2000
  • Conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos 1954–1976
  • Conflict in the Gulf 1980–2017
Connections and context

  • The difference between peace and conflict

  • Personal conflicts in their own lives

  • Ways in which conflict can occur

  • Ways in which conflict can be resolved

  • Why conflicts can be difficult to resolve

  • Peaceful actions that can resolve conflict

The nature and development of a historical conflict

  • Sources and what they reveal about the conflict

  • The location of a specific conflict in modern history

  • Chronology of key events in the conflict

  • The main causes of the conflict

  • Groups involved in the conflict

  • The role of a key individual or group in the conflict

  • Perspectives of different groups involved in the conflict

  • Daily conditions for people involved in the conflict

  • Weaponry used in the conflict

  • Reliability of sources of information about the conflict

  • International involvement in the conflict

  • A turning point in the conflict

  • Responses to the conflict

  • Tactics or strategies used by the countries involved in the conflict

  • A political system that led or contributed to the conflict

  • Attempts at peacemaking and the success of these attempts

  • Consequences of the conflict

  • Representations of the conflict throughout history

  • An international organisation that has worked towards peace

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