Titlebook: Knowledge at the Crossroads?; Physics and History Lyn Yates,Peter Woelert,Kate O‘Connor Book 2017 Springer Science+Business Media Singapor

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New Public Management and the Changing Governance of Universitiesof teaching and research, and a continuing reduction in public funding. Within universities these changes have led to more managerial forms of governance and organisation, the use of performance indicators that align with those used at the national level, and decreased professional autonomy of acade

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Changing Agendas and the?Governance of the School Curriculumtics, and the establishment of a new national body, ACARA, which has authority for curriculum, reporting and assessment. ACARA oversees the development of a new ‘Australian Curriculum’; the conduct of a new national testing program, NAPLAN; and the production of a new website, ., which publicly comm

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Australian ‘History Wars’: The Contested Purpose of History in the Curriculumthe professional and practitioner level. The overall content framework for history is shown to be a difficult, divisive and distinctive issue for school curriculum, and not one that can be simply derived from the discipline itself. Similarly student engagement is seen to be important to historical l

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The Physics Curriculum: What Is the ‘Discipline’ that Needs to Be Nurtured? issues such as nuclear energy and climate change. Their major concerns are two-fold. One is the lack of physics trained teachers, and the detrimental effect this has on student engagement and subject choice. The second is the problem of balancing the conceptual and mathematical content in the curri

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Inward and Outward Facing Knowledge: Curriculum Purposes and Slippagesresearch data indicates that both history and physics teachers saw the value of their respective subjects in terms of longer term and more general foundations and that inducting students into the disciplinary forms of their subject, not just its useful applications, was important in this purpose. Ho

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