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Contested Notions of Civics and Citizenship Education as National Education in the Australian Curriculum

Author(s) -

Libby Tudball,

Deborah Henderson

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

curriculum and teaching

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2201-0602

pISSN - 0726-416X

DOI - 10.7459/ct/29.2.02

Subject(s) - civics , curriculum , citizenship , citizenship education , national curriculum , curriculum studies , pedagogy , sociology , australian curriculum , political science , mathematics education , gender studies , psychology , law , politics , project commissioning , publishing

Civics and Citizenship (CC) education is a contested concept and a learning area that creates curriculum and implementation challenges for schools in many nations. The current development of the first national curriculum to be implemented in Australia, the Australian Curriculum, provides a national opportunity for educators to rethink curriculum priorities and to decide on new emphases for learning in schools, in response to policy that emphasizes the importance of CC for all young Australians. In this paper, we discuss the contested notion of citizenship education as ‘national education’ in Australia, the development of this learning area and some challenges schools will encounter implementing CC in the Australian Curriculum

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