History / Year 9 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Curriculum content descriptions

The role of an individual or group in the promotion of ONE of these key ideas, and the responses to it, for example from workers, entrepreneurs, land owners, religious groups (ACDSEH087)

Elaborations
  • explaining responses to particular ideas (for example, how religious groups responded to ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species or how workers responded to the idea of capitalism or socialism)
  • investigating the role played by an individual or group in promoting a key idea (for example, the role of Adam Smith and entrepreneurs in promoting capitalism)
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Imperialism,  Significant people,  Capitalism,  Chartism,  Nationalism,  Economy

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