The authorities charged with the latest six-yearly review of the Australian school curriculum have just emitted their proposals and, if I could borrow John Derbyshire’s eloquent phrasing, it is all about a blackety-blackety-black black black blackety-black makeover of education in Australia.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), a federal government body, has recommended that education in Australia (up to Year 10 high school) should obsess about how an evil, white-supremacist European civilisation has visited nothing but “dispossession, disease and destruction” on Australia’s Aborigines [
This woke enlightenment is to be achieved by overlaying the “cross-curriculum priority” of “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture” on every discipline from Math to Physical Education. As well as inculcating national self-loathing by white Australians, the curriculum will instruct students on how “contemporary Aboriginal and T
European Colonisation Taught as an Invasion
Olivia Day, Daily Mail, April 29, 2021
Proposed changes to the national curriculum will see school students taught that First Nations Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) also advised the terms Aboriginal and Indigenous be replaced with First Nations Australians or Australian First Nations Peoples.
In a report released for discussion on Thursday, ACARA said it found a lack of ‘truth telling’ about the experience of First Nations Peoples since European settlement, and raised concerns about the ‘accuracy and adequacy’ of the current curriculum.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures is a cross-curriculum priority, meaning the topic must be taught across all disciplines including maths, science and history.
Proposed changes to the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum were released for public consultation yesterday.
While many of these changes are minor tweaks and refinements, much like a curriculum oil change and tune-up, there are some noteworthy changes in the mix.
They include a more accurate reflection of the historical record of First Nations people’s experience with colonisation, with a commitment to “truth telling”. This means in part recognising Australia’s First Nations peoples viewed Britain’s arrival as an “invasion”.
There is also much stronger emphasis on cultural diversity and inclusion in the Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum.
Proposed changes to the national curriculum will see school students taught that First Nations Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) also advised the terms Aboriginal and Indigenous be replaced with First Nations Australians or Australian First Nations Peoples.
In a report released for discussion on Thursday, ACARA said it found a lack of truth telling about the experience of First Nations Peoples since European settlement, and raised concerns about the accuracy and adequacy of the current curriculum.
Proposed changes to Australia s national curriculum would see school students be taught that First Nation Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion
In an overhaul to the national curriculum students learning will be reordered
Students will learn to tell the time in year 2 and will learn multiplication in year 4
It comes as teachers said the existing curriculum was difficult to navigate
The new curriculum is said to have more time to focus on what is most essential
Students will be taught about respectful relationships, abuse, consent, sexting