Key Curriculum Policy Documents

A central intent of the project was to examine the agendas influencing curriculum policy at each of these mid-decade points: 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005. One of the ways we sought to illuminate this was to identify key documents that capture something of the curriculum culture in each state. A total of 65 documents across the six states were identified as key curriculum documents and summaries were produced for each period and document. Although this represents only a fraction of the total number of education reports and policy documents produced across Australia over four decades, it does provide something of a snapshot of curriculum concerns across the states and over time. Digitised copies of the policies and the summaries we produced of these can be accessed via the archive. A table of the selected documents by year and state is also available here.