European Union a "gold mine" for high school teachers

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Published May 9, 2019

Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) high school teachers, you have a “gold mine” of European Union (EU) lesson options to explore, says Dr Daryl Le Cornu, a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and Western Sydney University. He is a former history and legal studies high school teacher.

Dr Daryl Le Cornu says that students can explore the EU across a variety of subjects.

He was a speaker at a two-day Summer School for Secondary Teachers on The European Union in the era of ...

This story appeared in the May 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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