{"id":13539,"date":"2021-10-23T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2021-10-23T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:55:46","slug":"tudges-toxic-history-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/tudges-toxic-history-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudge\u2019s toxic history war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the Education Minister\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/nation\/politics\/schools-risk-our-nextgen-security-alan-tudge\/news-story\/6ab4e405177c01086fb5c1a6f0c82cab\">latest attempt<\/a>\u00a0to whitewash Australian history and pressure the independent curriculum authority to sanitise what\u2019s taught in our schools.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cAlan Tudge\u2019s ever-escalating culture war is offensive, pathetic and ahistorical. It should be challenged by everyone who cares about the integrity of our education system.<br \/>\n\u201cStudents should be learning critical thinking, not a sanitised version of history. Tudge clearly sees it as his mission as Education Minister to fight what he considers a \u2018woke\u2019 agenda in education. This is an alarming approach to say the least.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Education Minister\u2019s obsession with the national curriculum reflects several of his Liberal predecessors. But if Christopher Pyne was famously \u2018hands-on\u2019, Alan Tudge is \u2018gloves off\u2019.<br \/>\n\u201cRight-wing politicians the world over are currently waging these wars. The confected outrage over \u2018critical race theory\u2019 in the United States is a case in point. It can escalate and infringe on the civil liberties of teachers and school communities.<br \/>\n\u201cI worry about the effect this has on the independence of ACARA. It\u2019s their job to dispassionately draft the curriculum in consultation with experts. Tudge\u2019s ideological campaign of parliament speeches, TV interviews and newspaper op-eds is unprecedented and puts pressure on them.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course, the great outrage is that while the Education Minister has been fighting this history war, universities have continued to lose thousands of jobs. Schools are grappling with immense challenges in the pandemic. Education is in crisis and the Minister is missing in action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the Education Minister\u2019s\u00a0latest attempt\u00a0to whitewash Australian history and pressure the independent curriculum authority to sanitise what\u2019s taught in our schools. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cAlan Tudge\u2019s ever-escalating culture war is offensive, pathetic and ahistorical. It should be challenged by everyone who cares about the integrity of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/tudges-toxic-history-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tudge\u2019s toxic history war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}