Adolescence to Adult-Sense is an engaging seminar designed to encourage students to consider what it means to be a healthy adult in today’s society? The process incorporates an overview of the themes and key ingredients of transition into adulthood from cultures around the world.
The Adolescence to Adult-sense equips and empowers students with the following learning goals and outcomes …
- Clarifying the physical stages of development from conception to adulthood.
- Juxtaposing the physical to psychological development, explaining the difference between growing old vs growing up – ever had someone say, why don’t you just grow up?”.
- Exploring the schemas in a persons “developmental timeline” and how that affects relationships.
- Defining the key stages of adolescent development.
- Discovering and distilling the principles of rights and responsibilities through Initiation (rites of passage from differing cultures) and contrasting initiation with current day “schoolies”
- Identifying behaviours that embrace adulthood.
As per the Personal and Social Capabilities in the Australian National Curriculum, students are invited to assess their strengths and challenges and devise personally appropriate strategies to achieve future success; plan, clarify complex information and ideas drawn from a range of sources; and, critically analyse self-discipline strategies and consider their application in social and potential work-related contexts.