1. EDUC 1751Digital Artefacts
Alesha Roche
3062888
Tues 4 - 6
History

2. Artefact 1 - Discovering Democracy: Exclusion
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L10395/index.html

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4. Key learning objectives that this artefact demonstrates are

• Students investigate some of the reasons why people from the Pacific Islands and from Asian countries, such as China and Japan, came to Australia in the 19th century.
• 5. Students identify some common attitudes of white settlers to non-white immigrants.
• 6. Students investigate the various kinds of legislation used by colonies to keep certain immigrants out.
• 7. Students interpret information from a range of primary sources.

Educational value

• The artefact describes the role immigrant groups that were later excluded played in the economic life of the colonies, as well as measures taken to limit their numbers.
• 8. Outlines reasons for the arrival of some immigrant groups that were eventually excluded from Australia.
• 9. Outlines some prevalent attitudes of non-white people to Chinese and other Asian immigrants and to Pacific Islanders.
• 10. Presents some prevalent attitudes of non-Indigenous Australians to Indigenous Australians.
• 11. Provides a range of primary sources including images, political cartoons, statistics and maps.
• 12. Provides a related student task.