State’s new curricula for years 7 to 10 released as part of the shift to explicit teaching
All high school students in New South Wales will study Aboriginal people’s experiences of colonisation for the first time, including theOn Thursday, the education minister, Prue Car, released the remaining new curricula for Years 7 to 10 history, geography and visual arts, as part of itsHistory now includes the impact of missions and religious organisations on Aboriginal people and their resistance and struggle for rights and freedoms.
“It tells a story of colonisation and dispossession in a truthful way, moving through Australian history into a progressive survival narrative,” he said. “What’s really clear is the shift to one of survival – the importance of reclaiming languages, cultures and identities.“We talk a lot about what an Australian identity looks like.
“The end result is students that can actively participate in democracy, that will see voting is important,” he said. “The curriculum is legitimising Australian history as important – I’m excited to teach it.”on the impacts of colonisation and concurrent resistance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples than Queensland or Victoria, which only provide optional modules on the effects of the “extension of European powers” during the Industrial Revolution.
NSW Education Standards Authority CEO, Paul Martin, said the syllabuses would enable teachers to enter classrooms with a “consistent and clear understanding of their students’ learning entitlement” while also building on the skills-base of Years 5 and 6.
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