This continues an ongoing challenge to education, where ill-informed political intervention into teaching matters leads to reductive and simplistic conclusions ...
'Political football': Ill-informed policymakers should keep out of the Australian Curriculum
The culture wars have been reignited by the education minister, tapping into the earlier 'history wars' and bringing discussion of the new Australian Curriculum draft into mainstream media coverage.
In Australia, and perhaps other neoliberal western democracies, conversations about curriculum (and the endless urge to review them) are political fodder for point scoring within a broader culture war.
In Australia, and perhaps other neoliberal western democracies, conversations about curriculum (and the endless urge to review them) are political fodder for point scoring within a broader culture war.
