Published Resources Details Report
- Title
- Essential Learnings Framework 1 and 2
- Type of Work
- Frameworks
- Imprint
- Department of Education,, 2002
- Subject
- Tasmania; Secondary School Curriculum Policy
- Description
- Enacts the vision of Tasmania Together and Learning Together: A Vision for Education, Training and Information in the 21st Century (2000).
- Aims to reduce the problem of the crowded curriculum (appears to do this by taking out all subject areas and replacing them with sets of principles and visions for the person that schools should create).
- Identifies five essential learnings areas: communicating; thinking; personal futures; social responsibility; and world futures.
- Notes that in the context of rapid social and technological change, education must help students develop flexibility and critical thinking.
- Emphasises the following values: connectedness, resilience, achievement, creativity, integrity, responsibility and equity.
- Includes sets of reflective 'key questions for educators'.
- Includes twelve 'learning, teaching and assessment principles'.