When it comes to Christopher Pyne, lawyer, republican and politician, a couple of things. First, as a lawyer, it is always important to read documents carefully, writes Tony Taylor co-editor of the upcoming History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives.
History curriculum
Guy Rundle: Our new curriculum and how deconstruction has ruined finger-painting
How great it is to see that Australian education is back on track with the new draft national curriculum — national curriculum website offering many lessons in the correct (and incorrect) usage of the English language.
Lowbottom High Diaries: History written by committee
Teachers have been invited to join with hairdressers in deciding their futures by responding to the current draft of the national curriculum, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Lessons in history, brought to you by The Oz
Left-wing appears to be being confused with sceptical. Scepticism is the basis of ALL inquiry, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Fixing the Federation Part 1: Education
In the first instalment in an occasional series on federal-state relations, Associate Professor Tony Taylor , author of the original history curriculum draft commissioned by the former Howard government, looks at the impact “new federalism” could have on education:
Howard’s history 2: absolutism wrestling the relativism
In an effort to spare fragile teen intellect from fragmented learnin’, John Howard reckons that history can be taught as a clean and linear narrative, writes Helen Razer.
Howard’s history 1: OMG, is this a win for the left?
According to reports, the much awaited new history curriculum will be pretty similar to the way we’ve been teaching history before, writes Guy Rundle.
History is more than just recitative
News that PM John Howard has been micro-managing the drafting of the new history curriculum (Crikey, yesterday) should come as no surprise.
How the PM took the questions out of history
This is a draft of the Australian history curriculum that the government has refused to release, writes Sophie Black.
1915 and all that: History in a holding pattern
So, after a lot of sound and fury, a one-day conference, a lot of tut-tutting about hysterical accusations, the development of the new high school history curriculum turned out to be a fix after all. After Professor Tony Taylor, a specialist in history education, presented his draft curriculum developed after a heavily right-slanted one-day conference on the issue, the Government has called in Geoffrey Blainey and Gerard Henderson to rewrite it.
