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Cairns, Rebecca; Weinmann, Michiko – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
For the last five decades, the development of "Asia-literate" students has been a key objective in Australian education policy. The contentions surrounding this educational goal have been well documented by academic literatures, policy documents and media commentary. This paper seeks to redress the absence of student voices in these…
Descriptors: Asian History, Asian Studies, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
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Salter, Peta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Since 1969, over 60 Australian government and non-government policies, documents, committees, working parties and organisations have explored the need to "know Asia". In schools, this engagement is conceptualised as "Asia literacy" and disseminated in the emerging Australian Curriculum through the cross-curriculum priority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Studies, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development
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Gupta, Amita – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
This paper will illustrate how philosophical and pedagogical boundaries that are defined by diverse cultures and ideologies might be navigated in the practical implementation of an early childhood curriculum in postcolonial urban India. Findings from a qualitative naturalistic inquiry indicated that a complex, multifaceted curriculum shaped by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development