Journal article
A conversation with Dr Peter Hill (CEO, ACARA)
Australian Journal of Middle Schooling, Vol.11(2), pp.28-32
2011
Abstract
Dr Peter Hill is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and has a long history as an advocate for middle schooling practices in Australia. Peter has published and presented extensively on middle schooling in Australia and was the lead member of The Victorian Quality Schools Project (1996). Findings and recommendations from that project are still just as relevant today. Over the years, Peter has continued to argue that the content of the curriculum for middle years learners needs to be reduced and needs to re-focus on foundational knowledge, with greater opportunity for sustained, in-depth learning. He has also observed that achieving this would involve a substantial challenge to secondary schools to increase emphasis on a learner-centred, rather than curriculum-centred, approach to education. With these findings expressed 15 years ago, the authors' conversation confirmed that his position has not changed and that the new Australian national curriculum can fulfil these recommendations.
Details
- Title
- A conversation with Dr Peter Hill (CEO, ACARA)
- Authors
- Katherine Maine (Author)Emily Ross (Author)
- Publication details
- Australian Journal of Middle Schooling, Vol.11(2), pp.28-32
- Publisher
- Middle Years of Schooling Association
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99527008602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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