Curriculum Policy and Major Education Reports
Tasmania – Key Documents – the 2005 Context
Learning Together: A Vision for Education, Training and Information into the 21st Century – 2000
- Provides a vision for Education, Training and Information in the 21st Century.
- Outlines five goals for creating a ‘world-class’ system and a number of strategies designed to assist in achieving those goals.
- Promotes improvement and greater integration of existing services and improved pathways.
- Emphasises the importance of lifelong learning.
Essential Learning Framework 1 – 2002
- Enacts the vision of Tasmania Together and Learning Together: A Vision for Education, Training and Information in the 21st Century (2000).
- Aims to reduce the problem of the crowded curriculum (appears to do this by taking out all subject areas and replacing them with sets of principles and visions for the person that schools should create).
- Identifies five essential learnings areas: communicating; thinking; personal futures; social responsibility; and world futures.
- Notes that in the context of rapid social and technological change, education must help students develop flexibility and critical thinking.
- Emphasises the following values: connectedness, resilience, achievement, creativity, integrity, responsibility and equity.
- Includes sets of reflective ‘key questions for educators’.
- Includes twelve ‘learning, teaching and assessment principles’.
Tasmania A State of Learning: A Strategy for Post-Year 10 Education and Training – 2003
- Arose from the vision of Tasmania Together and Learning Together: A Vision for Education, Training and Information in the 21st Century (2000).
- Sets out a strategy for post-Year 10 Education and Training.
- Emphasises lifelong learning, pathways planning and transition support.
- Includes lists of ‘outcomes’ and initiatives for achieving those outcomes.
- Initiatives include legislation that will require participation in education and training post-Year 10, a review of the funding model, provision of more flexible learning options, greater integration between sectors, partnerships between students and families and education and training providers, mentoring, and a post-Year 10 curriculum review.
- Organised around four key elements: ‘guaranteeing futures’, ‘ensuring essential literacies’, ‘enhancing adult learning’ and ‘building learning communities’.