After Burwood What? A Study in Curriculum Innovation and Evaluation

See Doll R. C. Curriculum Improvement: Decision-Making and Process. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1970, 24.

This model is further explained in Dufty D. G. “Changing the Social Studies Curriculum.” The Education Gazette, LXV, 6, July 1970.

Many other more specific criteria would be needed for more adequate evaluation of curriculum schemes. For example, one important criterion is provision for individual differences and the degree to which we are challenging the gifted and encouraging the retarded and culturally deprived. For other criteria see “A Critical Appraisal of Twenty-Six National Social Studies Projects.” Social Education, 34, 4, April 1970.

See NICSSE Bulletin, 1, July 1970, 2–4; School Family, 1, 5, 1970, and Educational Books and Equipment, 3, 1, February 1971, 17–19.

This audio-visual report may be borrowed from the Sydney University Curriculum Laboratory. It may be of use for preservice and inservice courses. I am grateful to the Australian Journal of Education and the University of Sydney for assistance in defraying expenses for travel and film.

I am particularly grateful to W. Brewer, C. Makin, R. Cleaves, G. Whitehead, D. Tulloch and N. Holland, who criticized the first draft but not the final version.

For example, see Education News, 11, December 1967.

Partridge P. H. Connell W. F. Cohen S. W. Social Science for the Secondary School. Sydney: Novak, 1969.

Draft Plan for the Development of Social Science Curricula in Australia. Canberra: Australian National Advisory Committee for Unesco, 1969, 2.

Draft Plan for the Development of Social Science Curricula in Australia. Canberra: Australian National Advisory Committee for Unesco, 1969, 6.

The chairman of the committee is Prof. W. F. Connell of Sydney University.

See Hughes P. “Curriculum Development in Primary Education.” Australian Journal of Education, 10, 3, October 1966, 256–272.

The School in Society. The Report of the Committee set up to investigate the Role of the School in Society. Hobart: Education Department of Tasmania, 1968.

O'Grady J. G. An Evaluation of Some Aspects of the Lower Primary Geography Television Series This Island. Hobart: Education Department, 1969.

Primary Social Science Stage I. Hobart: Curriculum Branch, 1970, 4.

Social Sciences: Course Statement. (A draft statement on Units I and II of the new secondary course), 3.

Primary Social Science, 6.

For a criticism of such generalizations, see Johnston G. “The Scientific Study of Society: A Discussion of Limits and Alternatives”. Australian Journal of Education, 14, 1, March 1970, 58. See also the reference to the Introduction to the Behavioural Sciences programme, which includes in its aims “cautious and critical attitudes to generalizations”, in NICSSE Bulletin, No. 2, September 1970, 7.

Cf. The work of Jerome Bruner and the E.D.C. with its “Man a Course of Study” programme described in Dufty D. G. (Ed.) Teaching About Society. Adelaide: Rigby, 1970, 308–309.

The Australian, July 13, 1970.

The Australian, August 14, 1970.

Social Studies Courses and Teacher's Guide. Adelaide: Education Department, n.d.

A Three-Year Course of Social Studies for High Schools in South Australia and Adelaide. Education Department, 1969.

See Bennett D. M. in Dufty D. G. (Ed.) Teaching About Society. 376–7.

See Society, 2, 1, 1970, 5 ff.

Secondary Education in Western Australia. Perth: The Education Department, 1969.

The Nedlands Social Science Project. Books to be published by Heinemann.

Mr. Makin is now Principal of Graylands Teachers' College, Perth.

See Achievement Certificate Social Studies Programmes. Perth: Department of Education, n.d.

Public Examinations for Queensland Secondary School Students. Brisbane: Department of Education, 1970.

See Taba H. Teachers' Handbook for Elementary Social Studies. Palo Alto, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1967.

See criticisms in the review of curriculum projects in Social Education, 34, 4, April 1970, and in Fair, J., and Shaftel, F. R. Effective Thinking. Washington: N.C.S.S., 1967, 141 ff.

Syllabus in Social Studies for Primary Schools. Brisbane: Department of Education, 1970.

Primary Social Science (Extended Trial Version), Stage 1, 24.

For further details of developments in General Studies see “Three Years of Curriculum Change”. The Secondary Teacher, 157, July 1970.

Tonkin C. B. Pledger P. J. One World. Melbourne: Cassell, 1967.

For further details of Hunt's viewpoint, see “Social Science and School Curricula”. Education News, 12, 8, April 1970, 8–13, and Hunt F. J. . Social Sciences and the School Curriculum. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971.

Letter to the author by Mr. R. Cleaves, Curriculum Assistant.

These materials have now been published by Heinemann.

See Encel S. “Social Studies and the Social Sciences”. Australian Journal of Education, 14, October 1970, 227–240, for an explanation of the rationale behind the selection of these topics.

Doll R. C. op. cit., 167.

See Secondary Education in a Changing Society. Malvern, Vic.: Australian Frontier, 1970.

It is indeed paradoxical that a Unesco sponsored conference should have given so little emphasis to the importance of intercultural education and education about world order. See World Law Funds Progress Report, 1, 2, Fall 1969.

See Partridge P. H. “Teaching the Social Sciences”. Education News, 11, 6, December 1967, 15. See also Lamb, W. H. “What's Happening to History”. Educational Books and Equipment, 2, 4, April 1970, 3–5.

Dufty D. G. Teaching About Society, 13.

The original theoretical work of Norman Holland of the University of Queensland is also of significance. See Dufty, D. G., Ch. 3 and Ch. 16. See also Dufty D. G. “Changing the Social Studies Curriculum”, The Education Gazette, LXV, 5, June 1970, 213–221, for some possible prerequisites needed for developing a distinctively Australian curriculum model.