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Monday October 27 2008: Sydney, Australia
THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
THE educator charged with steering the development of Australia's first national curriculum likens his job to growing a forest. National Curriculum Board chairman Barry McGaw says the draft outlines for English, maths, science and history released last week are intended to set out a broad direction before sniping begins over the details.
"We thought that would facilitate an interesting discussion about the nature of the forest before we have the discussion about the species of trees we should grow," he tells an assembled throng of teachers, academics and curriculum experts at a series of forums in Melbourne to discuss the drafts. "It starts the discussion in a slightly different way and that's to lay out in 10 to 20 pages the broad scope and sequence of study for English K (kindergarten) to (year) 12, for maths K to 12, the sciences and history." - Read more... |
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