In the Area of Study - Discovery, you will be exploring and examining relationships between language and text, and the inter-relationships between texts. So, while you will be examining what a text says about discovery, you will also be exploring how language forms and features have been used to create meaning. Why all this exploring, researching, investigating, selecting, analysing and interpreting? One of the intentions of the subject is that in your active particiaption in the learning process you be refining your composional skills and constructing that your own personal responses.
The Set Text: 'The Motorcycle Diaries', Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Set Text: The Motorcycle Diaries: notes on a latin american journey, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 2003. (non-fiction)
This travel memoir was published by Guevara's daughter, Aleida - after her rediscovery of the manuscript that her father had written during his journey of discovery with friend and fellow medical undergraduate, Alberto Granada. The text, on one level, is an account of the discoveries that take place on any journey into the new and the unfamiliar - such as the revelations a visit to Macchu Pichu but on another leayer of meaning, the text also represents an account of Che's internalised discovery of a new political consciousness and new ways of perceiving the world that rendered his past as misguided, blinded and strange.
Ultimately this is a revoltionary narrative that charts the growing unease that envelops Che once the injustice, poverty and suffering of the indigenous people of South America are laid out before he and Granado. The ramifications of this discovery were profound and are of global significance, as Che's transformation from student doctor to left-wing political revolutionary became fully realised. Whatever your own discovery of the text reveals, Che remains one of the most iconic figures of left-wing politics in the twentieth century, and this is the story of that character's genesis.
Ultimately this is a revoltionary narrative that charts the growing unease that envelops Che once the injustice, poverty and suffering of the indigenous people of South America are laid out before he and Granado. The ramifications of this discovery were profound and are of global significance, as Che's transformation from student doctor to left-wing political revolutionary became fully realised. Whatever your own discovery of the text reveals, Che remains one of the most iconic figures of left-wing politics in the twentieth century, and this is the story of that character's genesis.
Defining the concept - Discovery
To define the overarching concept we first of all consult the Board of Studies syllabus rubric, which is located on another page on this site. However, we can say that discovery can encompass the rediscovery of what has been lost, concealed, forgotten or hidden. Discoveries can be take the form of an unplanned revelation - such as an ephiphany that transforms thinking, spirituality, perception, and emotions or they might be the outcome of meticulous planning and research driven by curiosity or a sense of adventure. Similarly, discoveries can result from reasoning and the application of the scientific method, and it is this peculiarly human trait that has transformed our lives and the planet through advances in science, technology, mathematics, and philosophy.
To define the overarching concept we first of all consult the Board of Studies syllabus rubric, which is located on another page on this site. However, we can say that discovery can encompass the rediscovery of what has been lost, concealed, forgotten or hidden. Discoveries can be take the form of an unplanned revelation - such as an ephiphany that transforms thinking, spirituality, perception, and emotions or they might be the outcome of meticulous planning and research driven by curiosity or a sense of adventure. Similarly, discoveries can result from reasoning and the application of the scientific method, and it is this peculiarly human trait that has transformed our lives and the planet through advances in science, technology, mathematics, and philosophy.
Rediscovery:
- Lost Worlds - Machu Pichu,
- Missing Persons
- Archaeology
- Anthropology
- Ethno-graphic research
- Family History
Self - Discovery:
- Faith
- Rites of Passage
- Perceptions of the world
- Cognition of the 'self' --> 'self esteem', 'individuality'
- Language as a way of defining ourselves and the meaning/s we make of the world
Speculative and Scientific Discovery:
- Mathematics
- Microworlds
- Natural Sciences
- New Frontiers
- Science Fiction