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- Title
Geography Takes Centre Stage: Australia's New National Curriculum.
- Authors
Purnell, Ken; Hutchinson, Nick
- Abstract
Geographical knowledge and skills are fundamental to everyone's life. Geography is not a compulsory subject in Australian schools at present. However, Federal and State governments in Australia have recently agreed to have a national curriculum for schools from Kindergarten to Year 12 (K-12) for the first time. The national curriculum is to commence roll out in 2011. Geography will be a compulsory subject from K-12 and this has major implications for learning and teaching in schools. We argue that sophisticated use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) will be a key to the future of quality geographical education as this new era unfolds.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; GEOGRAPHY; FEDERAL government; STATE governments; CURRICULUM; COMMUNICATION &; technology
- Publication
Geographical Education, 2008, Vol 21, p8
- ISSN
0085-0969
- Publication type
Article