Public submissions for the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools Organisation: ARC Linkage Project Chief Investigators and Partner Investigators Submitting as a: Academic person or institution WA Summary The submission reports and positive student and teacher responses and unexpected but spectacular results for gender equalisation in knowledge and attitude to STEM topics through a modified school curriculum that gives it an Einsteinian science focus. this involves early years introduction of Einsteinian concepts regarding mathematics and geometry, mid years introduction of concepts about light and gravity and relativity of space and time. All this prepares students for later year introduction of more formal learning, and prevents the current cognitive conflict between early year teaching of obsolete 19th Century Newtonian concepts and the science that drives technology today. It is suggested that badging Australia as being in the forefront of curriculum transformation to an Einsteinian focus would be of major national economic benefit. Main submission Submission to the Ministerial Review Committee on the National Curriculum Submitted by Winthrop Professor David Blair on behalf of the Einstein-First education research project funded by the ARC Linkage program. Partners: UWA, Curtin University, Gravity Discovery Centre Foundation This submission was prepared by members of the Australian Research Council funded Einstein-First education research project which is focussed on the need to modernise school science by reconstructing the curriculum around modern Einsteinian science instead of the current curriculum which is almost entirely based on obsolete 19th century physics. We are part of an international Einsteinian Physics Education Research (EPER) Collaboration, involving Norway, Scotland, Germany, Korea, China and Australia.
Public submissions for the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools Organisation: ARC Linkage Project Chief Investigators and Partner Investigators Submitting as a: Academic person or institution WA Summary The submission reports and positive student and teacher responses and unexpected but spectacular results for gender equalisation in knowledge and attitude to STEM topics through a modified school curriculum that gives it an Einsteinian science focus. this involves early years introduction of Einsteinian concepts regarding mathematics and geometry, mid years introduction of concepts about light and gravity and relativity of space and time. All this prepares students for later year introduction of more formal learning, and prevents the current cognitive conflict between early year teaching of obsolete 19th Century Newtonian concepts and the science that drives technology today. It is suggested that badging Australia as being in the forefront of curriculum transformation to an Einsteinian focus would be of major national economic benefit. Main submission Submission to the Ministerial Review Committee on the National Curriculum Submitted by Winthrop Professor David Blair on behalf of the Einstein-First education research project funded by the ARC Linkage program. Partners: UWA, Curtin University, Gravity Discovery Centre Foundation This submission was prepared by members of the Australian Research Council funded Einstein-First education research project which is focussed on the need to modernise school science by reconstructing the curriculum around modern Einsteinian science instead of the current curriculum which is almost entirely based on obsolete 19th century physics. We are part of an international Einsteinian Physics Education Research (EPER) Collaboration, involving Norway, Scotland, Germany, Korea, China and Australia.
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