Information Services

Australian Resources

• Australian Curriculum Studies Association
• Queensland Studies Authority
  QSA is responsible for syllabus development, assessment, and the transition to tertiary education and post-school destinations for Queensland students from preschool to Year 12.
• Curriculum Documents on the Web: Australia
• Schools Online Curriculum Content Initiative
  Information about the collaborative effort to generate online curriculum content for Australian schools.
• An excellent article on the history of the development and implementation of the concept of a national curriculum can be found in Education Research and Perspectives, 23(1), June 1996, titled The national curriculum in Australia by M. A. (Ken) Clements

Overseas Resources

• Aera.net Division B: Curriculum Studies Division of the American Educational Research Association
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Curriculum Documents on the Web: Overseas
• Developing Educational Standards Annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents.
• The Evergreen Curriculum Saskatchewan P-12 curriculum documents. The library also holds a CD-ROM.

Electronic Journals

• ASCD Education Bulletin
  Online newsletter of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Archived issues available.
• Interlink Newsletter archive
  These provide information about the context in which the key learning area and early years curriculum materials were developed. This page includes links to other QSA publications.
• Journal of Curriculum and Supervision
  Abstracts and selected articles. Held in print at 370.71 P9
• Journal of Curriculum Studies Available to JCU staff and students only. Online from 1997+. Also held in print at 375.001 P1
• Pedagogy, Culture & Society
  Fully-refereed journal that seeks to provide an international forum for curriculum discussion and debate. The full text of all articles becomes freely available online to all users 12 months after publication of the print/paper edition.

Education Resources

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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

Links checked April 2004; Updated April 2004 by lbcy.