Challenging Authority
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of Challenging
Authority is represented in and through texts.
Challenging Authority encompasses the experiences of individuals and the way in which they
interact with authority represented in other individuals, society and institutions.
An individual’s response to Challenging Authority can vary according to personal, cultural, historical
and social contexts and values. The impact of Challenging Authority can be far-reaching and transformative
for the individual and for society.
By exploring the concept of Challenging Authority, students have the potential to affirm or
challenge individuals’ or more widely-held assumptions and beliefs about aspects of human experience
and the world. Through composing and responding to a wide range of texts, students may make
discoveries about people, relationships, societies, places and events and generate new ideas. By
synthesising perspectives, students may deepen their understanding of the concept of Challenging
Authority.
In their responses and compositions, students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:
their own experiences of Challenging Authority
the experience of Challenging Authority in and through their engagement with texts
assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of Challenging Authority
how the concept of Challenging Authority is conveyed through the representations of people,
relationships, societies, places, events and ideas that they encounter in the prescribed text and
other related texts
how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structure shapes
representations of Challenging Authority
the ways in which exploring the concept of Challenging Authority may broaden and deepen their
understanding of themselves and their world.
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of Challenging
Authority is represented in and through texts.
Challenging Authority encompasses the experiences of individuals and the way in which they
interact with authority represented in other individuals, society and institutions.
An individual’s response to Challenging Authority can vary according to personal, cultural, historical
and social contexts and values. The impact of Challenging Authority can be far-reaching and transformative
for the individual and for society.
By exploring the concept of Challenging Authority, students have the potential to affirm or
challenge individuals’ or more widely-held assumptions and beliefs about aspects of human experience
and the world. Through composing and responding to a wide range of texts, students may make
discoveries about people, relationships, societies, places and events and generate new ideas. By
synthesising perspectives, students may deepen their understanding of the concept of Challenging
Authority.
In their responses and compositions, students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:
their own experiences of Challenging Authority
the experience of Challenging Authority in and through their engagement with texts
assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of Challenging Authority
how the concept of Challenging Authority is conveyed through the representations of people,
relationships, societies, places, events and ideas that they encounter in the prescribed text and
other related texts
how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structure shapes
representations of Challenging Authority
the ways in which exploring the concept of Challenging Authority may broaden and deepen their
understanding of themselves and their world.
Quotations on Authority and Power-
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is is equally bad"
"Knowledge is power"
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is is equally bad"
"Knowledge is power"