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Anzac Day analysis from The Conversation

Text Anzac Day analysis from The Conversation

TLF ID M019367

This is a collection of short articles about Anzac Day, including history, preparation for centenary celebrations, cultural interpretations of remembrance, relationship with Remembrance Day, and wars not remembered such as Tasmania’s Black War. The articles are written in plain language and are authored by experts from universities in Australia and around the world. The collection is regularly updated with new contributions.

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Educational value
  • The articles provide highly valuable sources of content to support student investigation and critical reflection on commemoration of Anzac Day and other remembrance practices and as the stimulus materials for contemporary issues studies in English .
  • The resources provide secondary source material for analysis of different interpretations of events and their underlying values appropriate for students in middle to senior secondary classrooms.
  • The resource supports modern history studies in senior secondary curriculums.
  • The resource also supports learning areas of Year 10 History, including the modern world and Australia.
Year level

9; 10; 11; 12

Topics Historians Culture Attitudes Australian history Values (Psychology) Historiography Remembrance Critical thinking Cultural contexts Explanations (Factual texts) War memorials Register (Language) Historical sources World War I
Learning area
  • English
  • History
  • Humanities and Social Sciences

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: The Conversation Media Group
  • Organization: The Conversation Media Group
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://theconversation.com/
  • Publisher
  • Name: The Conversation
  • Organization: The Conversation
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://theconversation.com/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Text
Rights
  • Copyright © 2010–2015, The Conversation Media Group. Articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/