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Originally Posted by renormalised
What needs to happen is that the educators in schools need smartening up and the role of curriculum setting taken out of the hand of politicians and bureaucrats and put back into the hands of specialised teachers with a lot of experience in the subjects to be taught.
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Nearly right mate. What needs to happen is education should be removed beyond any politics and from the control of politicians themselves. Each incoming party thinks it has to make changes whether good bad or ugly no matter what is at stake or the consequences of their desire to big note themselves whilst pulling the wool over parents eyes. Science teachers in WA have just completed a ten year fight with the politicians and silly academics and to some degree we won (polies got kicked out and we retained some sembelance of a workable curriculum). I can tell you straight out that non of this nonsense would ever be taught in a science classroom except with the intention to expose it for the rubbish it is. We need such material to expose kids to the idea of critical thinking and you can bet I have bookmarked that webpage. Have you looked at the preposed national science curriculum?
http://www.acara.edu.au/default.asp
Mark