The National Economics Curriculum in Australia is Reportedly Unsalvageable
A curriculum review has been conducted by Griffith University Economics Professor Tony Makin, and lecturer Alex Robinson.
They say " the curriculum incorrectly defines some fundamental concepts including gross domestic product, efficiency and productivity"
They report it to be "misleading, unbalanced, too imprecise to be useful ... beyond redrafting"
Journalist Paul Kelly comments on the curriculum "It was a compromise devised in haste ..."
Front page of Australian Newspaper Wed Oct 14, 2014
In the past curriculum was left more in the hands of trained education professionals. People went to university learnt how people learn, then spent years working in education, before they applied their knowledge and experience to developing curriculum. We seem to have moved to a point where these education experts are given less opportunity to apply their expertise. In today's schools and colleges, we hear people talking about how all the "stakeholders" need to be consulted. Is it really a better idea to ask parents, politicians and employers what should be in curriculum. Have we gone too far in involving stakeholders, and is this a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth?
Would we be better off leaving the educators to get on with the job of educating; or is it really useful to have input from as many different stakeholders as possible?
