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Australia has moved towards a national curriculum to achieve consistency in curriculum, assessment and reporting from Prep to Year 12. Beginning 2013 our curriculum will be drawn from The Australian Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science and History.
The remaining areas of SOSE (Studies of Society and Environment ),Health and Physical Education, Languages, Technology and The Arts are drawn from the Queensland Studies Authority Essential Learnings. The Australian Curriculum values, respects and explores the contribution of Asian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to its contemporary literature and its literary heritage through their distinctive ways of representing and communicating knowledge, traditions and experience.
The Curriculum into the Classroom (C2C) project will support state school implementation of the Australian Curriculum with a comprehensive set of exemplar school curriculum plans, based on those produced by the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA). This comprehensive curriculum planning package, created by teachers for teachers, provides guidance for the implementation of the Foundation (Prep) - 10 Australian Curriculum in English, Mathematics, Science and History in 2013.
History
History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students' curiosity and imagination. Awareness of history is an essential characteristic of any society, and historical knowledge is fundamental to understanding ourselves and others. It promotes the understanding of societies, events, movements and developments that have shaped humanity from earliest times. It helps students appreciate how the world and its people have changed, as well as the significant continuities that exist to the present day. History, as a discipline, has its own methods and procedures which make it different from other ways of understanding human experience. The study of history is based on evidence derived from remains of the past. It is interpretative by nature, promotes debate and encourages thinking about human values, including present and future challenges.