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Social justice Examples include:

Taking action for positive change • exploring issues of fairness
relating to human rights, equality from different perspectives

and equity. Being concerned with • challenging assumptions and
the advantages and disadvantages generalizations
within society, and with social well- • volunteering in response to
being and justice for all. community needs

Social entrepreneurship Examples include:

Supporting positive social change • designing, planning and
through responding to the needs of developing models and solutions
local, national and global to address identified issues
communities; applying prior • initiating and maintaining

knowledge and skills to identify and projects that have a positive
address challenges and impact on the learning
opportunities in innovative, community

resourceful and sustainable ways.

Lifestyle choices Examples include:

Making positive lifestyle changes in • considering and acting on
response to learning. factors that contribute to
personal, social and physical

health and well-being
• taking responsibility for
interactions and relationships

with others
• engaging in responsible and
sustainable consumption (for

example, making informed
decisions surrounding food,
energy, water, materials usage).

*Some examples of Action in DPSI :

• Evaan a Nursery student during nature walk in a garden shared his

knowledge about caterpillars, cocoons and butterflies with his
mother.

• Sky of K.G showed his parents the song and dance learnt at school.

• Tiana in Grade 1 changed her eating habits and chose to eat healthy

food with lot of vegetables when she went out to eat with her