The global Black Lives Matter movement has in part highlighted the way students learn about black history and educators in Australia say more can be done here JarniBlakkarly
What started as protests against police brutality towards African-Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement has in recent weeks highlighted the controversial past of many figures who have been immortalised in statues.
“Even though the policy has been mandatory for over 20 years it’s not being implemented. Teachers don’t have enough foundational knowledge to feel comfortable teaching it,” he told SBS News. “As a society we still have very limited knowledge. There are falsehoods that are maintained in Australian society and we need to challenge those,” he said.
Ms Hall argued the issue is not in the school curriculum, which she said thoroughly covers Indigenous history, or with the teachers, but that history is not given the same class time or priority as science, technology, English and mathematics.
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