EDF2071 - Interdisciplinary approaches to health and physical education

This unit explores how educators come to understand and appreciate the complex connections across the many sub-fields of health and physical education (HPE) and more broadly across educational priority areas. Students investigate key priorities in secondary education connected to the Australian Curriculum and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to understand the requirements for their professional practice. In particular, the unit explores the cross-curriculum priorities of Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures, and education for sustainability. The unit contextualises these within an HPE context and, drawing on interdisciplinary knowledge developed in the first year, students explore exemplars of policies and practice and continue to build knowledge of varied approaches to HPE in the school and community. Students further develop understanding of the critical areas of literacy, numeracy and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and how they can be included in teaching and learning in schools. Through combining theory and practice across discipline areas, students begin to enhance their understanding of the wider educational settings, cross-curricular priorities and associated teaching and learning strategies.