ABSTRACT
The education scene in Australia is no exception, and within its broad parameters the curriculum and its organisation and management structures have been a growing focus for change. The education scene in Australia is no exception, and within its broad parameters the curriculum and its organisation and management structures have been a growing focus for change. The curriculum domain can rightfully be argued to be the most important operational dimension in education. To a great extent, the pyramid of power in curriculum management has been flattened and, in some ways, even inverted in the changes that have affected Australian education since the late 1960s. Across Australia, state education departments published and presented curriculum materials. Effectively, in all areas of the curriculum, with the exception of religious education, the non-government school sector exercised its independence to adopt and follow the courses of study prepared by the state education departments.
