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ACHPER is waiting on the Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Council of Ministers of Education (MCEECDYA) position on remaining curriculum areas in the national curriculum process.

ACHPER has offered it’s support to ACARA once the remaining curriculum areas are added.

ACHPER has always been concerned about the ‘flawed’ process’ adopted by the federal government in regards to developing a national curriculum whereby subjects and curriculum areas have been added almost randomly.

While the national curriculum debate continues, criticism of the process has emerged from the 2009 Garth Boomer Lecture presented by Emeritus Professor Alan Reid of the University of South Australia. In this incisive critique of all aspects of the Federal Government’s Education Revolution, Professor Reid rates the development of national curriculum to this stage as quite concerning and urges a reconsideration of some of the basic principles that have been established. He also maintains that the Federal Government still has the opportunity to reconsider its approach and to make it more comprehensive. [More]