By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2010
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, History, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Crikey, Culture Wars, education faculties, history teaching, History wars, Howardia, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, Kevin Rudd, national curriculum, national history curriculum, P-10, school education, SOSE, Tony Abbott, Tony Taylor |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
Reporting of the initial proposals from the National Curriculum Board for directions for history teaching in schools is concentrating on the suggestion that Australian history be embedded within global contexts. Given that there has already been a predictable furore of [...]
Posted in Education, History, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Anna Clark, Australian history, Canadian history, Culture Wars, Gerard Henderson, History wars, history's children, kevin donnelly, national curriculum board, national history curriculum, school education, schools policy, Sociology, stuart macintyre, Tony Abbott, world history |
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