NATIONAL GOALS FOR SCHOOLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS PUBLISHED

The 10th Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) releases The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century, which states, “schooling provides a foundation for young Australians’ intellectual, physical, social, moral, spiritual and aesthetic development.”

Schooling provides students with fully developed talents and capacities upon leaving school through 8 key learning areas:

• the arts
• English
• health and physical education
• languages other than English
• mathematics
• science
• studies of society and environment, and
• technology.

 

(The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century, April 1999)

 

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