Discipline-based Learning
The domains within the Discipline-based Learning strand form a body of knowledge with associated ways of seeing the world and distinct methods of exploring, imagining and constructing that world.
Broadly in line with academic literature and consistent with practice in many schools, the Victorian Essential Learning Standards identify the Arts, The Humanities, English and Languages Other Than English, Mathematics and Science as the disciplines for the curriculum over the stages of learning from Prep to Year 10.
Within the Discipline-based Learning strand the learning domains are:
The Arts
English
The
Humanities
The
Humanities – Economics
The
Humanities – Geography
The
Humanities – History
Languages
Other Than English (LOTE)
Mathematics
Science
Students who develop a deep understanding of the concepts contained in the discipline-based domains are able to apply their knowledge in many different ways. The degree to which they are able to transfer their knowledge depends largely on the degree to which students have achieved mastery over Physical, Personal and Social and Interdisciplinary learning.
Research suggests that students develop deeper understanding of discipline-based concepts when they are encouraged to reflect on their learning, take personal responsibility for it and relate it to their own world. These approaches are explicitly defined in the Physical, Personal and Social Learning domains such as physical education and personal learning.
Students are better able to develop, demonstrate and use discipline-based knowledge and skills when they are able to employ interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and behaviours described in the domains of Communication; Design, Creativity and Technology; Information and Communications Technology; and Thinking Processes.
