Howard's End : a narrative memoir of political contrivance, neoconservative ideology and the Australian history curriculum

Title: Howard's End : a narrative memoir of political contrivance, neoconservative ideology and the Australian history curriculum
Creator: Taylor, Anthony
Date: 2009
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/36816
Identifier: vital:6387
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585170903424765
Identifier: ISSN:0958-5176
Abstract: In August 2006, Australia's conservative prime minister John Howard convened a history summit in Canberra. The purported goal of the summit was the framing of a nationally-acceptable curriculum in Australian history. However, as this article suggests, Howard's hidden intention was to use the summit as a device for introducing a narrowly traditionalist syllabus that would be personally pleasing to the prime minister. As it happened, Howard's plan encountered resistance from members of the history education community and, after several diversions and alarms, was discarded when the conservative coalition government was defeated in the general election of November 2007. The author was closely involved in these proceedings and this article constitutes a contextualised memoir of events.
Relation: Curriculum Journal Vol. 20, no. 4 (2009), p. 317-329
Rights: Copyright Taylor and Francis
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Curriculum politics; History education; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
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