The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu
This chapter raises two questions about the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics: What practices it may inspire and what might be its contributions to the national goals of education. The first questions is about the internal cohesiveness, or the synergy between the curriculum’s stated aims and ration...
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| description | This chapter raises two questions about the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics: What practices it may inspire and what might be its contributions to the national goals of education. The first questions is about the internal cohesiveness, or the synergy between the curriculum’s stated aims and rationale, on the one hand, and the content and its articulation on the other, and what vision of mathematics education they may inspire across the different jurisdictions which would adopt it. The second question is about its external cohesiveness, or the synergy between the curriculum itself and the national expectations of education and what contribution it may make to the public good in the Australian society. The chapter questions whether only lip service in the elaborations is given to the General Capabilities, Cross-curricular Priorities, and the high order Proficiencies. Similarly, the lack of focus on conceptualisation and articulation of the purposes of learning mathematics opens up the possibilities of designing school-based curricula that are far from achieving the national goals of active and informed citizens. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-374872023-02-07T08:01:20Z The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu Atweh, Bill Miller, Donna Thornton, Steve Bill Atweh Merrilyn Goos Robyn Jorgensen Dianne Siemon This chapter raises two questions about the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics: What practices it may inspire and what might be its contributions to the national goals of education. The first questions is about the internal cohesiveness, or the synergy between the curriculum’s stated aims and rationale, on the one hand, and the content and its articulation on the other, and what vision of mathematics education they may inspire across the different jurisdictions which would adopt it. The second question is about its external cohesiveness, or the synergy between the curriculum itself and the national expectations of education and what contribution it may make to the public good in the Australian society. The chapter questions whether only lip service in the elaborations is given to the General Capabilities, Cross-curricular Priorities, and the high order Proficiencies. Similarly, the lack of focus on conceptualisation and articulation of the purposes of learning mathematics opens up the possibilities of designing school-based curricula that are far from achieving the national goals of active and informed citizens. 2012 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37487 http://www.merga.net.au/sites/default/files/editor/books/1/Chapter%201%20Atweh.pdf Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Atweh, Bill Miller, Donna Thornton, Steve The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title | The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title_full | The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title_fullStr | The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title_short | The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - World Class for Déjà Vu |
| title_sort | australian curriculum: mathematics - world class for déjà vu |
| url | http://www.merga.net.au/sites/default/files/editor/books/1/Chapter%201%20Atweh.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37487 |