Context behind the AEF responses to national curriculum framing papers
Early in 2009, the then National Curriculum Board invited comment about the proposed shape of the emerging national curriculum in Australia. Here you can read the context in which the AEF responses to the proposed framing papers for English and History were prepared.
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- Defining Asia literacy
The context for Asia literacy in the National Curriculum
Defining Asia literacy
In brief:
- ‘Asia literacy’ assists young Australians to make sense of the part of the world in which they live – the Asian region.
- ‘Asia literacy’ is foundational and deep knowledge, skills and understandings about the histories, geographies, societies, cultures, literature and languages of the diverse countries that make up our region. This is a core part of a twenty-first century Australian curriculum.
- ‘Asia literacy’ is integral to the achievement of educational goals including personal futures, interpersonal development, social responsibility, cultural sensitivity, building communities, local and global futures, intercultural understanding, moral and ethical integrity, spiritual and aesthetic development and the skills of communicating, creating, thinking and innovating.
