The draft shape paper for Civics and Citizenship is now available for national public consultation until Friday, 10 August 2012. ACARA encourages all members of the Australian community to view and comment on this very important curriculum document. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians calls for the Australian Curriculum to ensure that...

The Technologies learning area focuses on the purposeful use of technologies knowledge, understanding, and skills including the creative processes that assist people to select and utilise materials, information, systems, tools and equipment to design and realise solutions. The draft Shape Paper proposes directions for the development of the national Technologies curriculum for Years F–12. Following...

General capabilities, a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum, are addressed explicitly in the content of the learning areas. They play a significant role in realising the goals set out in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008) that all young people in Australia should be supported to become successful learners...

The place of the arts in the new Australian K–12 national curriculum is now available for national public consultation until 17 December 2010. Feedback will be used to further revise the draft shape paper, which will then be published as The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This paper will guide the writing of...