Dennis Jensen
tlambert | October 27, 2010Georgina Robinson in Sydney Morning Herald reports:
[An Inconvenient Truth] will be used in the English curriculum as part of studies around the theme of sustainability, a spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority said.
It is not a required text but will be used by English teachers to "analyse the way language and emotion can be used to convince viewers of a particular position", the spokesman said.
Students may also be directed to undertake their own research on the film's claims, he said.
This sounds like a good idea. The SMH has one of those unscientific…