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"The NSW Education Standards Authority will be removing the teaching of the
Aboriginal past prior to European arrival from the Year 7–10 syllabus as of
2027.
Since 2012, the topic “Ancient Australia” has been taught nationally in Year 7
as part of the Australian Curriculum. In 2022, a new topic called the “deep
time history of Australia” was introduced to provide a more detailed study of
65,000 years of First Nations’ occupation of the continent.
However, New South Wales has surprisingly dropped this topic from its new
syllabus, which will be rolled out in 2027. Instead, students will only learn
First Nations’ history following European colonisation in 1788.
This directly undermines the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration of
2020. This is a national agreement, signed by education ministers from all
jurisdictions, which states:
We recognise the more than 60,000 years [sic] of continual connection by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as a key part of the nation’s
history, present and future.
If the planned change to the syllabus goes through, the only Aboriginal history
taught to NSW students would be that which reflects the destruction of
traditional Aboriginal society. It also means Aboriginal students in NSW will
be denied a chance to learn about their deep ancestral past."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
