Asia and the national curriculum
Professor Tony Milner
On Saturday 3 October Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, was interviewed on the ABC Saturday Extra program about the handling of ‘Asia’ in the new national history curriculum:
Historian Anthony Milner has a passion for Australian stories and passing them on to the next generation of kids. But, he wants to broaden them to include their Asian context; that is, beyond European and settler notions. And he believes this could hit various bases simultaneously: it could be educationally clever, expanding the students, and it could help flesh out the prime minister’s vision that Australia be the most Asia-literate society in the world.