ELECTIVE 3: NAVIGATING THE GLOBAL
THE RUBRIC
"In the late 20th century and early 21st century, the development towards a global culture has blurred traditional concepts and boundaries of time and space. Knowledge, values and culture have become at once global and local through the globalisation of communications. Choice and circumstance have created a range of individual and community responses to this changing reality: some have embraced or warily accepted it, while others have challenged or retreated from it. The ideas, language forms, features and structures of texts may reflect or challenge ways of thinking during this period. In this elective students are requires to study at least three of the prescribed texts, two of which must be print texts, as well as other texts of their own choosing. In their responding and composing they explore, analyse, experiment with and critically evaluate their prescribed texts and a range of other appropriate examples. Texts should be drawn from a range of contexts and media and should reflect the relationships between the global and the local and the significance of these relationships to the life of the individual and their community." |
THE BREAKDOWN
We are studying texts within the late 20th and early 21st century, and this is central as it will guide you through the ways of thinking specific to this historical period. How your texts demonstrate a global culture, blurred traditional concepts, boundaries of time and space, the binary of local and global, choice and circumstance, responses to this changing reality and how it explores relevant ways of thinking form the basis of your responses and guide your learning in this elective. It is always a great practise to brainstorm each text based on each key ideas in the rubric as it makes an effective and concise summary, and ensures that each area of the rubric is being covered! The bottom line: This elective is asking you to look both "locally" and "globally" at your texts. By this I mean you need to look at the world of the texts, the individuals in it, and how the two interact. Never forget the "navigation" that is embedded within the texts, as ultimately, all the ideas in the rubric relate back to the concepts of navigating the self and the surroundings. |