Whole School Matters draft manuscript
Community Matters draft manuscript
Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
MindMatters Planning Tools
School Audits and Surveys
Curriculum Links
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Understanding Mental Illness links to Design & Technology

 

Activities & Sessions

Essential Learnings

 

Changing people's minds & attitudes

Survey collation - pages 57-59

Video - changing people's attitudes - pages 59-61

Script your own advertisement - pages 61-62

Exploring attitudes - page 62

The kindness of strangers (handout) - page 63

Key communication messages (handout) - page 64

Identity 

1. Understanding self, group and others

Describes aspects of personal and group identity, eg cultural, behavioural, social, emotional and intellectual.

2. Understanding the social construction of identities

Appreciates that identities are constructed around personal and social values, ethics, systems, policies, practices and economics, eg age, race, ethnicity

Understands and critiques these social constructs to identify issues of power, justice and injustice, and identifies examples of ways in which groups can consequently be advantaged or disadvantaged