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| Outdoor Education Australia Comments on the Draft Shape Paper for Health and Physical Education |
This document represents the position of Outdoor Education Australia regarding the document ‘Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education’ released March 2012.
Initial reaction
The Draft Shaping paper for HPE acknowledges the importance of outdoor play/recreation far more than the initial advice paper published in Nov 2011. It also acknowledges a presence of Outdoor Education (OE) as a subject in the senior HPE learning area. In these respects, from an Outdoor
Education perspective, it is far superior to the earlier draft. However, it suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity, sequence and scope for Outdoor Education across the curriculum.
Current position
While the current draft has merit it can be improved to better represent and encapsulate the considerable contributions outdoor experiences makes to education for improved human and environmental futures. Outdoor Education Australia seeks to make the following broad comments
on areas for improvement ... READ MORE ...Outdoor Education Australia's Comments on the Draft Shape Paper for Health and Physical Education
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