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2025 VCE Study Design
VCAA have released a consultation draft of the 2025 Study Design available here.
VCAA would like feedback on the consultation draft from VCE teachers.
2024 VCE Forums
VCE Philosophy - Unit 3 Forum
Sunday - 21st May (you can still purchase the recording of this event)
VCE Philosophy - Unit 4 Forum
Sunday 30th July (you can still purchase the recording of this event)
VCE Philosophy - Revision Forums
Recordings of our Revision Forums from 2022 & 2021 are also available ($100 each).
2021 includes:
· Peter Soutar on Smart & Nagel
· Tristan Hill on Locke & Hume
· Lenny Robinson on Technology & The Good Life
· Kristy Forrest on Exam Revision Strategies
2022 includes:
· Ben Kilby on Evaluation in VCE Philosophy & Exam Breakdown
· Bonnie Zuidland on Section B: Extended Response
· Timotei Schubert on Comparing Philosophers and Ideas Across Unit 4
· Tristan Hill on Section C: The Essay
Email trea...@vaps.vic.edu.au to request an invoice & access.
To book for either/both and receive an invoice, please fill out this form.
Year 12 PIPS Event
For the first time, in 2024, VAPS will offer a Year 12 PIPS event for students. Many of you will be famiiar with our PIPS events in the lower years. For those who are not, these events engage students in mixed-school community of inquiry dialogues. This new event will see this done on stimuli specific to Unit 3/4 of VCE Philosophy. There will be an assumed knowledge of the texts and conceps.
PIPS events are very different to VCE Forums. While VCE Forums provide the content knowledge, particularly comprehending texts and ideas in texts, PIPS events allow an exploration of thinking from students themselves: i.e., the doing of philosophy.
See our PIPS sign up form here.
New Study Design
In Late Term 2 (date TBC), VAPS will facilitate a New Study Design Workshop. This will take place once the set texts are announced. If you would like to be contacted when this event if finalised, please fill in this form here.
VCE Resources - Contemporary Articles
We have started to curate a document with recent texts that are relevant to VCE. You can access and contribute to the document from the members section of our website (login required).
VCE Set Text Audiobooks
VAPS has recently published audiobooks available for free via Spotify for the current VCE Philosophy Set Texts. These are particuarly useful to have the texts all in one place, and also for texts that jump around and skip sections of the original (e.g., Descartes). These audiobooks will allow you to listen to only those sections that form part of the set text.
Contact
Please see our website and events calendar page of this newsletter for full details about venues, times, and registrations for all events.
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