The draft national curriculum geography paper adopts a “cultural/social constructivist approach” to learning and argues that maps are “social constructions” that “portray the world in distorted and selected ways” and it’s wrong to teach geography from within a “Western capitalist tradition”. Dr Kevin Donnelly reports.Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in her former role as education minister, described herself as an education traditionalist and as someone committed to bringing “clarity and rigour” to…
