NCJ Number
74379
Date Published
1980
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This paper describes developments in law-related education in South Australia as an integral component of the new social science curriculum, and as a subject in its own right under the title of legal studies.
Abstract
A separate legal studies course was scheduled to be introduced in the twelfth-year curriculum in 1980, covering such areas as law and lawmaking; the (Australian) Constitution; family law; consumers and the law; and young people and the law. As part of social studies curriculums for the years 8 to 12, units on legal studies will be structured around lawmakers and law enforcement, the government and society, social issues and the government, the law and the teenager, and the politics of power. Proposals on the introduction of law-related education across the curriculum were still pending at the time this paper was written (1979).