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Posted on 01/10/2014 10:24:25 PM PST by Dundee
FOR many years, Perth chemistry and physics teacher Marko Vojkovic has been at the front of the fight against what he describes as sociology in the teaching of sciences.
He led opposition to Western Australia's ill-fated outcomes-based education curriculum in 2007 and says he recognised some of its telltale signs when teachers got their first glimpses of the national curriculum in 2010.
For example, the edict that sustainability, the Asian century and indigenous perspective should be taught as part of physics and chemistry did not sit well with Mr Vojkovic. "I don't think there's a particularly Asian way of looking at physics - these are nature's laws," he said.
The Coalition's plans to shift back to a curriculum it describes as "orthodox" is the latest chapter in what has been a deeply divisive issue within the sector in recent years.
In March 2010, the then prime minister Kevin Rudd and his education minister Julia Gillard announced plans to rework the national curriculum to incorporate themes of Aboriginal histories and culture, sustainability, and Australia's engagement with Asia across the key subject areas of English, mathematics, science and history.
The plan was based on the Melbourne Declaration, which was, in the words of its preamble, about building "a democratic, equitable and just society - a society that is prosperous, cohesive and culturally diverse". It called for a sense of global citizenship, and said Australian children had to become "Asia literate". It sought to emphasise Australia's indigenous cultures "as a key part of the nation's history, present and future".
...as part of the "cross-curriculum priorities" of mathematics, students would "explore connections between representations of number and pattern and how they relate to aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures"...
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
I am sure it would be a Free Trader Communist Globalist wet dream to push “AsianPhilia” with Liberal Anti-White/Anti-European folks.
I actually have a an original newspaper from the 1930s that has that cartoon published in it.
Things haven’t changed much, have they?
No they have not, and neither have the results of those policies.
Over a decade of Roosevelt as President the country still had not recovered and the Depression was arguably getting worse, and it was all blamed on the Rich, the Republicans or reactionaries.
The only thing that pulled the US out of the Depression was WWII.
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