Religion, ethics may be in new curriculum

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BARNEY ZWARTZ
November 21, 2011

RELIGION and ethics taught from a secular perspective might be included in the new national curriculum, says Barry McGaw, the head of the board responsible for the curriculum.

Professor McGaw, the chairman of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, said religion and ethics would be included in a discussion paper early next year for the civics and citizenship course.

A Macquarie University PhD student, Cathy Byrne, told a forum hosted by the curriculum board in Sydney last week that the approach to religion and ethics in Australian schools was decades behind other leading developed nations.

She told the Herald that Sweden began compulsory core social science teaching on religion and ethics in 1962, while England began in 1988.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/religion-ethics-may-be-in-new-curriculum-20111120-1npdz.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. I see they seperate religion from ethics

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2. They are separate but they also overlap.

Ethics can be derived from a religious or a nonreligious source. The article doesn't go into it at all.

When the curriculum is developed you'll find it here:

http://www.acara.edu.au/default.asp