Abstract :
This paper considers how a topic such as Adaptations in the context of Australian National Curriculum: Literature on Screen, despite its contested beginnings within one tertiary environment, is nonetheless well-placed to serve the needs of tertiary education students in the humanities, as well as meet the new challenges opened up by the new nation-wide overhaul of the school sector in Australia. The developments in the English and History streams of the senior secondary section of the National Curriculum, in particular, invite contributions from the field of adaptation studies. The popularity of areas such as English and History, suggests that it may be time to examine more closely how these topics might more fruitfully overlap in future. Given the emphasis in the Australian National Curriculum on the combining of traditional literary genres with “multimodal texts such as film” (The National Curriculum Board 2009), the study of adaptations generally seems well poised to create a clearer dialogue between secondary and tertiary curriculum in Australia.
