Adjunct Professor Tony Taylor writes in The Conversation (25.8.14) about the overdue Donnelly/Wiltshire report on the National Curriculum, due last May.
‘In the absence of that final report, I thought it might be timely to fill the gap and announce the interim findings of another national curriculum review. This is an Australian Research Council comparative study of history curriculum implementation in two apparently history-obsessed nations, Australia (a liberal democracy) and Russia (a “managed” democracy).’
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