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Economics and business / Year 7 / Economics and Business Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions
Why individuals work, types of work and how people derive an income (ACHEK020)
Elaborations
- investigating the contribution that work can make to an individual (for example, earning an income, contributing to an individual’s self-esteem, contributing to the community, material and non-material living standards and happiness)
- exploring different types of work such as full-time, part-time, casual, at home, paid, unpaid, unrecognised, volunteer
- investigating alternative sources of income such as through owning a business, being a shareholder, providing a rental service
- discussing the ways people who have retired from employment earn an income (for example, age pension, superannuation and private savings)
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Work (Labour), Income