The changes, released for discussion by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority on Thursday, also said the terms Aboriginal and Indigenous be replaced with First Nations Australians or Australian First Nations Peoples.
The review found the existing themes did not include enough “truth telling” about the experience of First Nations Australians since European settlement, and put too much emphasis on the period before contact with Europeans. The review proposed that a critical step towards becoming culturally responsive was to acknowledge that the terms “Aboriginal” and indigenous were being imposed without consultation, and “First Nations People” was more widely accepted.
In year 9 history, students will learn about different historical interpretations and debates about the colonial and settler societies, such as contested terms including colonisation, settlement and invasion. “The kid sitting on the reading mat today is going to face a world with multiple world views, with changes to world powers, and indigenous knowledges - by putting through different ways of seeing the world - will give kids a real advantage.
The chief executive of ACARA, David de Carvalho, said the revisions gave students the chance to discuss and understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, such as how the arrival of the First Fleet was perceived.
JordsBaker It’s about time
JordsBaker GREAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED YEARS AGO, THEY WILL GET BACK THEIR PRIDE AND DIGNITY WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM THEM.
JordsBaker This is a complete waste. Time could rather be spent teaching knowledge and skills that are actually useful, not this irrelevant waste of time.
JordsBaker Yes!
JordsBaker It’s good 2 know and understand our history. But, if they start using it as a tool 2 label current generations as racist, or 2 expect young white ppl 2 apologise 4 things they’re not responsible for, or hav no control over, then they can shove their curriculum up their bung hole!
JordsBaker Yep cancel history!
JordsBaker The real one......(?)
JordsBaker Hot take… Youtube has better content than schools
JordsBaker OK but what about making students proud that they live in a land that was micr-managed for food productivity for 65,000 years and we can still learn the way from First Nation Australians. We 1st respect and appreciate, then acknowledge and value their culture.
JordsBaker Good.
JordsBaker Well that’s an unhelpful way to indoctrinate the young. What about the Aryans invading India and becoming the Brahmin caste? Or Romans invading and colonising Gaul? Or Anglo-Saxons (English) invading The Welsh of Britain?
JordsBaker quality j’ism
LyndaFrench19 JordsBaker about damned time.
JordsBaker Good! I can’t believe it’s 2021 and we’re still talking about this.
JordsBaker There should firstly be a rewrite of what actually happened from 1770 to say now underpinned with a significant body of research to get it right.
JordsBaker About frigging time. The Libs and Nats will shit the bed over this.
JordsBaker Pretty certain we were taught it from both perspectives in the 80s and 90s.
JordsBaker Any history teacher worth two bob has been doing this for years. Department curriculum writers must think all teachers are programmable robots.
JordsBaker Teach them to understand the processes involved in producing historical knowledge.
JordsBaker ‘Bout bloody time 👏👍
Sharon_Davis_ JordsBaker Good
JordsBaker Go the full story and add “conquered”
JordsBaker Invasion, colonisation and settlement are words which have a proper place in a fully rounded history of the origins of modern Australia.
JordsBaker Why is there ‘ ‘ around the word invasion? Seems we still have a problem with honesty here.
JordsBaker It’s the truth. They should be taught that, so should their parents and grandparents.
JordsBaker Watch all the rabid racists come out
JordsBaker Thank Ch**st I have retired from teaching History, that is all I can say.
JordsBaker cue Latham outrage !
pepeMcGee JordsBaker Haha, Bolt will have a coronary😂😂
JordsBaker So the truth. Good.
JordsBaker Invasion ? Has anyone read the dictionary ? RealMarkLatham
JordsBaker about time.
JordsBaker I wish they had done this when I went to school, there is no way I would support Australia Day on the 26th January, LNP just keep rubbing this cruelty in and dividing Australians 💔💔💔
JordsBaker Alternate headline “Australian student finally taught Australian history in publicly funded government schools” auspol australia australianhistory
JaneCaro JordsBaker Hallelujah. About time. But I’ll bet the white, over-religious types will block it.
JordsBaker It was more of a problem with illegal immigrants who they failed to assimilate.
JordsBaker wrong - on so many levels
JordsBaker Cultural Marxism and Postmodernism have skewed our view of history. We need to realise Socialism just one of many theories & that the indigenous culture no better or no worse than any other. Note colour & culture does do not define 'invasion'. Indigenous themselves 'invaders'.
JordsBaker We have a problem with humanities depts; they 'indoctrinate' our teachers - they've gone nutty ideologically & way Left. They teach issues/opinions as facts. There's more to history than multiculturalism, diversity, identity politics, indigenous. Do not fawn over the indigenous.
JordsBaker About time... Now for the rest world to do the same. I was shocked when a young school teacher from the UK was over and didn't know that happened.
AngusGthompson JordsBaker No, its not the 'first time' students will be taught this. I learned this in school in the 1970's long before the concept of a Canberra politburo approved 'national curriculum'
JordsBaker We that is appropriate and correct.
JordsBaker Nonsense. In several states this is already taught and has been for years! Is this Morrison trying to take credit for 'change' and thus go for the 'Indigenous' and/or BLM vote? Laughable!
JordsBaker History should be no. 1 re syllabus. History main way to develop mature, informed & balanced adults - we don't have this now. We all came out of Africa. The 1st boat 60K yrs ago 'settlers'. The 2nd boat 10 minutes later 'invaders'.? 'Invaders' NOT defined by colour or culture!!!
JordsBaker Ridiculous
JordsBaker It is correct
JordsBaker Well it's about time.
JaneCaro JordsBaker Truth in Australian History class? Finally!
JordsBaker Long overdue. 170 massacres on the E. Coast alone (Abbott cut the funding to complete the research for the rest of Australia) wasn't a benevolent exercise in white man's burden
JordsBaker Stone age meets a boat load of convicts. Some invasion.
JaneCaro JordsBaker There's SKY Australia's programming sorted for the next year.
JordsBaker WHY IS THIS ONLY HAPPENING NOW?
JordsBaker About time!
JordsBaker I trust they’ll be taught about how “First Nations” governments handled personal liberties and economic policies as well
bencubby JordsBaker About time
JordsBaker The First Nations is a term that you should not appropriate fromanother culture. The First Nations are groups of Canadian indigenous peoples, not Australian. You should apologise for your flagrant imperialism over Canadian culture.
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