Stage 6 - People, Patterns and Processes - Place and Cultural Change
Discover cultural change and gentrification in Millers Point, Walsh Bay, and Dawes Point through an engaging full-day S6 Geography fieldwork. Students investigate place identity, community responses, and sustainability opportunities in this immersive local case study.
About this excursion
The “Place and Cultural Change” Stage 6 Geography fieldwork supports the ‘People, Patterns and Processes’ syllabus through a local case study of Millers Point, Walsh Bay, and Dawes Point. Focusing on gentrification, students explore the precincts’ spatial and cultural characteristics, shifts in cultural identity, and community responses to change. They also identify opportunities to improve environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. The program includes preparatory activities via an online resource and a full-day fieldwork experience to collect on-site data, providing an immersive and insightful investigation of place and cultural change for Stage 6 Geography students.
Key inquiry question
What have been the social, economic and environmental outcomes of gentrification on Millers Point and Dawes Point, and how has gentrification effected both suburb’s ‘Culture of place’.
Student Previsit and Follow-up Activities
Successful fieldwork visits have direct links to current classroom learning. Pre-visit activities before the excursion will help students better understand the excursion content and provide a sense of connectedness and relevance to classroom learning.
Have students visit the Student Support Website provided on booking and complete any pre-fieldwork activities to familiarise them with the study area.
During the full-day fieldwork excursion, students:
- Undertake a geographic inquiry in the field to answer a geographic question.
- Collect and analyse data using a range of fieldwork and sampling techniques to identify the influences of past and current cultural change, and perceptions and responses to these changes.
- Use maps, diagrams and other secondary resources to support student understanding.
- Engage in outdoor experiential learning and fieldwork activities to describe the cultures of two inner-city suburbs.
- Conduct an urban transect to investigate land-use features and evidence of cultural change.
- Interpret and analyse fieldwork results to describe the influence of mediums facilitating cultural change (gentrification and government policies) on the culture of the place of Millers Point (including Walsh Bay) and Dawes Point.
- Survey people on their perceptions of and responses to cultural continuity and change in the area.
Important information
- Government Schools: $20 per student (GST-free)
- Non-Government Schools: $30 per student (GST-free)
Millers Point, Dawes Point and Walsh Bay, Sydney, NSW.
View the Google map with the approximate walking route, meeting location and pick-up location.
A Student:
GE-11-01 - examines places, environments, and natural and human phenomena for their characteristics spatial patterns, interactions and changes over time.
GE-11-02 Explains geographical processes and influences, at a range of scales, that form and transform places and environments.
GE-11-06- identifies geographical methods used in geographical inquiry and their relevance in the contemporary world.
GE-11-07 - applies geographical inquiry skills and tools, including spatial technologies, fieldwork, and ethical practices, to investigate places and environments
GE-11-09 - communicates and applies geographical understanding, using geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and tools in appropriate forms.
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