1. The politics are personal: The Australian vs the Australian curriculum in history.
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Taylor, Tony and Collins, Sue
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CURRICULUM , *CONSERVATIVES , *CURRICULUM planning ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government, 1945- - Abstract
This article reviews the relationship between the conservative newspaperThe Australianand the development of a national history curriculum in Australia. The lead author surveyed the major Australian press in the five-year period between 2007 and 2012 and found clear patterns of difference betweenThe Australianand other press outlets in relation to education in general and history curriculum in particular. Using Jonathan Haidt's five-point model of moral values, the article analyses the behaviour of the press in Australia in relation to history education as a feature of moral preferences. Extending from this analysis, it then highlights a number of cases of press campaigns inThe Australiantargeted against individuals including one academic involved in the development of a national curriculum. The article demonstrates that a culture of aggressive conservatism exercised in this Murdoch press outlet reaches beyond the field of conventional political debate to constitute a serious and concerning influence in the dynamics of curriculum policy development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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