Abstract:
The recently released Review of the National Policy for the Education of Girls: A Draft Action Plan endorses the four objectives and identifies seven priority issues as the focus of continuing implementation of the 1987 National Policy. Taking up one strand of the process of policy analysis, this paper examines current discourses in feminist and curriculum theorising in the Australian context, analysing the ways in which the Review of the National Policy for the Education of Girls: A Draft Action Plan is informed by, or reflects these discourses. Ways in which these theoretical discourses might be used to enhance future policy development and implementation are highlighted.