Students learn about:

• Australian sporting identity
  • National and regional identity through sporting achievements
  • Government funding, eg the Australian Institute of Sport
  • Politics and sports
• The meaning of physical activity and sport to Indigenous Australians
  • Traditional activities and sports
  • Links between community and identity
• Physical activity, sport and cultural identity
  • The role of competition
  • Links to cultural identity
  • Relationships to health
  • Ways of thinking about the body.

Students learn to:

• critically examine how sport has been used to promote an Australian national and regional identity, eg Olympic coverage, State of Origin
• identify instances when Australia has used sport for political purposes and evaluate the impact of this on the athletes and the Australian public, eg Moscow Olympics, apartheid boycotts
• investigate how physical activity and sport have influenced the lives and identity of Indigenous Australians
• research physical activities or sports to determine their cultural significance for particular groups.

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.