A child’s curriculum experience at school lingers long after academic education has ended. Many children experience issues of diversity during their education. Ewing (2013, p. 73) argues that educational participation at school can disadvantage and separate some students, especially those in underprivileged communities. This means that a school’s curriculum and policies and a teacher’s pedagogy all contribute toward a child experiencing either a positive journey at school or a negative one. This purpose of this essay is to show that we live in a diverse society and to contend that issues of diversity are understood and represented fairly by education stakeholders but that policy and strategic planning needs to be better implemented for better
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They are also regularly discussed in parliament and one outcome of parliamentary discussion has been the Gonski report. The Gonski report was a report engaged by the government in partnership with entrepreneur David Gonski whereby schools, individuals and education groups submitted information and suggestions to improve the government's school funding model (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p.1). This report outlined that the current government funding model wasn’t working to give every student regardless of financial situation an equal opportunity at education. The report discovered that there was a large gap between Australia's bottom and top scoring students and that the overall performance of Australian students compared to international achievement was declining (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p. 3). The report recommended an increase in funding of five billion dollars from the national government and that most funding be allocated to schools for children with disabilities and schools with students who are are hindered in their learning by rural location or social disadvantage (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p.8). The extra money provided by this funding would be hugely beneficial to providing extra support and resources to students in disadvantaged areas. This report showed that the government understands the diversity between students and is trying to put policy in place to ensure all students have an equal opportunity at achieving scholastic
They are also regularly discussed in parliament and one outcome of parliamentary discussion has been the Gonski report. The Gonski report was a report engaged by the government in partnership with entrepreneur David Gonski whereby schools, individuals and education groups submitted information and suggestions to improve the government's school funding model (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p.1). This report outlined that the current government funding model wasn’t working to give every student regardless of financial situation an equal opportunity at education. The report discovered that there was a large gap between Australia's bottom and top scoring students and that the overall performance of Australian students compared to international achievement was declining (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p. 3). The report recommended an increase in funding of five billion dollars from the national government and that most funding be allocated to schools for children with disabilities and schools with students who are are hindered in their learning by rural location or social disadvantage (What’s in the Gonski report? 2013, p.8). The extra money provided by this funding would be hugely beneficial to providing extra support and resources to students in disadvantaged areas. This report showed that the government understands the diversity between students and is trying to put policy in place to ensure all students have an equal opportunity at achieving scholastic