VCE Unit 3 History Conference FEBRUARY 2012 - 24 Feb 2012

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Date
Friday, 24 February 2012

Time
9.00am–3.30pm

Venue
Cliftons Training Centre,
Level 2, 440 Collins Street,
Melbourne (between Market Street and William Street)

Registrations close: Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Prices: (GST inclusive)
HTAV Individual Member (metro): $155
HTAV Individual Member (country): $130*
HTAV Institutional Member (metro): $199
HTAV Institutional Member (country): $160*
Non HTAV Member: $255

*Country rates apply if the address provided is greater than 50kms from the Melbourne CBD.

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8.00–9.00am
Registration

PROGRAM: VCE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

9.00–10.30am
Update on Senior Courses for Australian Curriculum

Keynote: Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Dr James Boyce, author and Honorary Research Associate of the University of Tasmania
Melbourne was founded as an illegal Van Diemonian squatter camp in 1835. With the expansion across Bass Strait one of the fastest territorial conquests in the history of empires began. Most historians assume that the decision makers in London, Sydney and Hobart had ‘no choice’ but to surrender to the squatters despite the predictable consequences for the Aborigines. Dr Boyce believes this way of thinking reflects a deeply ingrained determinism that has made our past boring and our future dangerous. In this session, Dr Boyce will tell you why.
Dr Boyce is the author of Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. He also wrote the overview essay for Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, and the Tasmanian Chapter for First Australians.

10.30am–11.00am
Morning Tea

11.00am–12.00pm
Academic Lecture: Australia and Australians: Nation and Citizenship 1888–1914
Dr Bart Ziino, Deakin University
This lecture addresses the key concerns of Area of Study 2, as it surveys the ideas, attitudes and contests that shaped the emergent Australian nation over twenty-five years between 1888–1914. It asks how Australians defined themselves in this period, what their hopes were, and who was included and excluded from the Australian community. It will investigate a series of ideals and also fault lines in a developing Australian society, and will be especially concerned to see how that society was divided along the lines of class, race, and gender. Relevant electronic resources in art, political contests and citizenship will also be identified and discussed.

12.10pm–1.10pm
Teacher Workshop: Assessment Strategies for SAC and Exams
Tanya Shegog, The Grange P–12 College
This session will address the stressful subject of how to prepare assessment tasks and, more importantly, how to prepare students for these tasks, especially the ever-looming exam. We will discuss methods of constructing SACs to mirror exam format, methods of assessing the SACs, suggestions for regular formative assessment and strategies to make the vast amount of content memorable. Please come prepared with your own strategies, methods and resource ideas, as we will end with a discussion about what we have all tried and tested.

1.10pm–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00pm–3.15pm
Examiner’s Report
Shane Bourke, Chief Assessor
Shane will discuss the 2011 VCE Australian History exam paper to assist teachers in the preparation of course work in 2012.

PROGRAM: VCE RENAISSANCE ITALY

9.00–10.30am
Update on Senior Courses for Australian Curriculum

Keynote: Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Dr James Boyce, author and Honorary Research Associate of the University of Tasmania
Melbourne was founded as an illegal Van Diemonian squatter camp in 1835. With the expansion across Bass Strait one of the fastest territorial conquests in the history of empires began. Most historians assume that the decision makers in London, Sydney and Hobart had ‘no choice’ but to surrender to the squatters despite the predictable consequences for the Aborigines. Dr Boyce believes this way of thinking reflects a deeply ingrained determinism that has made our past boring and our future dangerous. In this session, Dr Boyce will tell you why.
Dr Boyce is the author of Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. He also wrote the overview essay for Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, and the Tasmanian Chapter for First Australians.

10.30am–11.00am
Morning Tea

11.00am–12.00pm
Academic Lecture: Princes, Patronage and Power in Renaissance Italy
Dr Geoffrey Smith, Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
In this session, consideration will be given to the different kinds of patronage which were used by the dominant elites in the city states of early modern Italy as a means to win support and popularity, to establish their political legitimacy and to strengthen their authority.

12.10pm–1.10pm
Teacher Workshop: Integrating Humanism: An Approach
Robyn Westwood, Centre for Adult Education
This session will consist of an exploration and discussion of the topic of humanism and how it can be connected to developments in Renaissance art, with references to historiography. Teachers are encouraged to bring examples of how they approach the teaching of humanism with reference to art development in order for a group discussion.

1.10pm–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00pm–3.15pm
Examiner’s Report
Anne McIIroy, Chief Assessor
Anne will outline the strengths and weaknesses of students’ responses to the 2011 November exams in order to assist teachers in the preparation of course work in 2012.

PROGRAM: VCE REVOLUTIONS

9.00–10.30am
Update on Senior Courses for Australian Curriculum

Keynote: Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Dr James Boyce, author and Honorary Research Associate of the University of Tasmania
Melbourne was founded as an illegal Van Diemonian squatter camp in 1835. With the expansion across Bass Strait one of the fastest territorial conquests in the history of empires began. Most historians assume that the decision makers in London, Sydney and Hobart had ‘no choice’ but to surrender to the squatters despite the predictable consequences for the Aborigines. Dr Boyce believes this way of thinking reflects a deeply ingrained determinism that has made our past boring and our future dangerous. In this session, Dr Boyce will tell you why.
Dr Boyce is the author of Van Diemen’s Land and 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. He also wrote the overview essay for Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, and the Tasmanian Chapter for First Australians.

10.30am–11.00am
Morning Tea

11.00am–12.00pm (choose one), Academic Lectures

AMERICA: Patriot Pictures: Ideological imagery of the American Revolution
Dr Michael Adcock, Melbourne Grammar School
In this illustrated slide lecture, Dr Michael Adcock will examine the instrumental use of visual imagery to express the ideological concerns of the American colonists before and during the Revolution. Dr Adcock has previously lectured in History 131–103 Age of Revolutions at The University of Melbourne, and became interested in the complex pictorial vocabulary of American images. This lecture will show a range of revolutionary images, and suggest ways in which teachers may establish key points about the Revolution by the use of political imagery.

FRANCE: 1789: A Revolution of the People?
Prof Peter McPhee, The University of Melbourne
How do historians now understand the origins of the French Revolution? Was it a crisis at the top of the Ancien Régime which began involving ordinary people only in July 1789, or is there evidence of popular revolutionary aspirations before this? The lecture will look at the origins of the Revolution and its course to October 1789.

RUSSIA: The Isolation of the Old Regime: Failed Atempts at Reform in Russia 1905–1917
Dr Darius von Guettner, The University of Melbourne
In 1905 the October Manifesto seemed to herald a new era in the relationship between the Tsar and his subjects. This presentation will draw on recent historiography of the Russian Revolution to explore the reasons for the isolation of Nicholas II and his inability to build a stable support base.

CHINA: China: The Long, Long Revolution
Dr Dianne McDonald, Trinity Grammar School
One of the questions new teachers ask when they begin teaching China is: ‘But how do I get through all the content in China between 1898 and 1949?’ Even more experienced teachers still find it difficult. Dr McDonald hopes to discuss and workshop some possible frameworks to help teachers of the Chinese Revolution do this including the use and value of broad overviews the themes that historians use and the use of ‘Big Questions’.

12.10pm–1.10pm (choose one), Teacher Workshops

AMERICA: American Story: How to Make Sense of Area of Study 1 and 2
Vince Toohey, St Kevin’s College
In this session, Vince will outline his approach to teaching Area of Study 1 and 2. Vince will discuss strategies and the pitfalls and there will also be ample opportunity for discussion.

FRANCE: Area of Study 1: Preparing Your Students for the First SAC
Luke Cashman, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School
One of the most difficult aspects of the Revolutions course is to create SACs that are simultaneously challenging and accessible. How can we allow our students to demonstrate what they know and what they can do while thoroughly preparing them for the November examination? In this session, Luke will show how past VCAA exams can be used to structure rigorous assessment tasks. Advice on how students should approach and plan for particular questions will be given. A range of practice tasks will be presented, as will sample responses (both student and teacher generated).

RUSSIA: Analysing the Leaders, Events and Ideas of the Russian Revolution
Nick Frigo, Education Consultant
‘. . . I just found the most amazing information about Lenin.’ ‘Did you know what Kerensky did after the revolution?’ ‘How was Rasputin killed?’
The ideas, leaders and movements of the Russian Revolution abound in rich content, the challenge is balancing the amount of material, the student 'interest' level and building student preparedness for the exam. During the session Nick will explore a range of visual and written primary sources relevant to the first Outcome for Unit 3 and strategies for scaffolding student learning.

CHINA: Reviving the ‘Yan’an Spirit’
Rachael Rosedale, Education Consultant
The ‘Yan’an Spirit’ is still alive and well in twenty-first century China. This workshop will trace the origins of this amazing spirit and examine how Mao and the CCP were effectively able to harness it to gain mass peasant support in the course of the revolution through to its reappearance during the Cultural Revolution to again shore up the defense of the revolution by a new class of young revolutionaries and then to present day China and its reemergence and symbolic appeal to a new generation of Chinese citizens.

1.10pm–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00pm–3.15pm
ALL REVOLUTIONS: Examiner’s Report
Di Wolff, Chief Assessor
Di will discuss the 2011 Examiner’s Report and provide samples of responses to some questions.