National+History+Curriculum

About the National History Currciulum
A copy of the near-to-final draft of the National History Curriculum is available on the ACARA website: http://www.acara.edu.au. Be sure to download the elaborations as well as the skeletal version of the document. This will provide a much more fulsome perspective.

Participants' concerns and questions about the National History Curriculum (from the 1st Workshop):

 * Implementation is a major issue
 * There is concern that the units in the National Curriculum are not necessarily matched to the units of inquiry in the PYP.
 * Year 7 is now like year 8 (Ancient Egypt). Are primary teachers equipped to teach this?
 * Indigenous History is only in Year 4 and only comes up again in Year 9 & 10. Is there provision to incorporate an indigenous perspective at other times?
 * Carmel indicated the document has been written to avoid another phase of the History wars. The document reflects a process approach and reinforces History as a mode of inquiry.