Australia's curriculum dilemmas : state cultures and the big issues / edited by Lyn Yates, Cherry Collins and Kate O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yates, Lyn, 1949- editor.

Collins, Cherry W. (Cherry Wedgwood), editor.

O'Connor, Kathleen, 1876-1968, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--Australia.

Education.

Education and state--Australia.

Education and state.

Educational planning--Government policy--Australia.

Educational planning.

Teaching--Australia.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria, Austalia : Melbourne University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Australia's Curriculum Dilemmas tells the story of Australia's recent attempts to come to grips with the big challenges of curriculum and sets up the background to understanding the debates that continue to surface as we move for the first time towards a national approach. Detailing some of the inside stories and arguments of the last 30 years about what schools should do, as well as some of the politics and lessons that have been learnt along the way, it brings together accounts from a national research project and reflections from people who have been actively involved in developing curriculum policies for each state. Expert contributors examine the challenges of the public management of curriculum, drawing on the different experiences of curriculum reforms in different states. They take up the problems of framing vocational and academic education for the new century and of confronting equity and diversity issues. They show the fundamental differences that exist in Australia regarding the impact of examinations and assessment, and the very different policy approaches that have been taken to tackle these issues. Many people in this country are unaware of how much their experience of education has been formed by the particular values of the state in which they were educated. For the first time, this book demonstrates the effects of those differences, now and into the future.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Notes on the editors

Acknowledgements

Part I-Introduction

1 Australian curriculum making: Lyn Yates, Cherry Collins and Kate O'Connor

Part II-Envisaging a new curriculum for new times

2 Re-thinking knowledge, re-thinking work: Lyn Yates

3 The influence of curriculum pasts on curriculum futures: A South Australian case study: Alan Reid

4 Curriculum change: The context for the development of the Tasmanian Essential Learnings Curriculum: Penny Andersen and Karin Oerlemans

5 Vocational curriculum in Victorian secondary education: Reconciling continuity and innovation: Jack Keating

Part III-Who are the students-and should we have different curricula for different kinds of individuals?

6 Confronting equity, retention and student diversity: Cherry Collins and Lyn Yates

7 The senior secondary curriculum in NSW: Academic traditions face issues of retention: Margaret Vickers

8 The quest for quality and equity in SA curriculum: Jim Dellit

9 Social context and educational change: Innovations in the Queensland curriculum: Rob Gilbert

Part IV-When assessment comes into the picture

10 The tail wagging the dog? Assessment and reporting: Cherry Collins

11 Managing without public examinations: Successful and sustained curriculum and assessment reform in Queensland: Graham S. Maxwell and J. Joy Cumming

12 Assessment for success: Bill Hannan

13 Waves of change: The critical role of assessment, reporting and accreditation in secondary curriculum reform in WA, 1975-2005: Bridget Leggett and Robyn White

Part V-The public management of curriculum and the story of curriculums that fall over

14 Why curriculums fall over: The politics of innovation: Jenni Connor

15 A story of collaboration and friction: Curriculum making in Western Australia, 1970s-2010: Colin Marsh.

16 Politics, personalities and the public interest: The establishment of the NSW Board of Studies and the determination of curriculum: Geoff Riordan

Part VI-Conclusion

17 Curriculum in Australia: The challenges, the past and the future: Lyn Yates, Cherry Collins and Kate O'Connor

Selected list of state and Commonwealth curriculum reports and frameworks

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860122

0522860125