Background: Early childhood education and care has been an area of significant policy attention, public investment and private market activity in Australia over the past three decades. Australian educationists and policy-makers have looked to international examples for evidence, policy design and institutional models. However, this area is…

This article draws upon some implementation models, namely the Rogers and Shoemaker (1971) model and Hall's (1973) concerns-based model, to explain contextual and process factors associated with the implementation of a high school geography syllabus in one Australian state. (Author/CT)