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Revision of the New South Wales Primary School Curriculum

Revision of the New South Wales Primary School Curriculum REVISION OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM A. H. WEBSTER At the beginning of 1952, primary teachers in New South Wales put aside the syllabus they had been using for the previous ten years and opened the cover of a new one-the "Curriculum for Primary Schools ".1 The project of constructing the new syllabus is reported in this journal because it provides an interesting example of methodology in curriculum making in four important respects: (i) the wide use of committees which enabled numbers of persons with many different, if overlapping, fields of experience to be brought together as syllabus writers, (ii) the research made into the effectiveness of the previous syllabus in meeting its objectives, (iii) the opportunity presented for all teachers to submit contributions to the revised curriculum and (iv) the translation of the general aims of the curriculum into the specific aims of the various subjects, and these in turn into the topics of the courses. Syllabus Committees Early in 1948, the Director of Primary Education appointed a Central Committee to organize the examination of the syllabus and to co-ordinate the work of subject sub-committees which were also formed. Each sub-committee consisted of a convener, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Revision of the New South Wales Primary School Curriculum

Webster, A. H.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 1 (2): 9 – Jul 1, 1957
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© 1957 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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REVISION OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM A. H. WEBSTER At the beginning of 1952, primary teachers in New South Wales put aside the syllabus they had been using for the previous ten years and opened the cover of a new one-the "Curriculum for Primary Schools ".1 The project of constructing the new syllabus is reported in this journal because it provides an interesting example of methodology in curriculum making in four important respects: (i) the wide use of committees which enabled numbers of persons with many different, if overlapping, fields of experience to be brought together as syllabus writers, (ii) the research made into the effectiveness of the previous syllabus in meeting its objectives, (iii) the opportunity presented for all teachers to submit contributions to the revised curriculum and (iv) the translation of the general aims of the curriculum into the specific aims of the various subjects, and these in turn into the topics of the courses. Syllabus Committees Early in 1948, the Director of Primary Education appointed a Central Committee to organize the examination of the syllabus and to co-ordinate the work of subject sub-committees which were also formed. Each sub-committee consisted of a convener,

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Published: Jul 1, 1957

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