Ideologues ‘have captured’ school history curriculum School curriculums have been “captured by ideologues’’ and history lessons are burdening students with a “strong sense of guilt’’ over the past treatment of indigenous Australians, experts argued yesterday amid the latest wave of “invasion day’’ politics. Kevin Donnelly, who co-chaired the review of the national curriculum, said the “pendulum in the curriculum, certainly in history, has moved too far towards the ... black-armband view and we don’t have a proper balance in recognising the positives and benefits of Western culture and Western civilisation’’. However, Ken Wiltshire, who sat alongside Dr Donnelly on the 2014 curriculum review, said the problem ... Continue reading... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...m/news-story/957908af8797b7f7fa49c631588f81f1
