Knowledge Nation was the education policy of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 (ALP), launched just before the 2001 Federal Election at Victoria University

Victoria University, Australia

Victoria University is a multi-sector tertiary institution based in Melbourne, Australia with 10 campuses.VU offers qualifications in higher education, vocational education , and short courses...

's St Albans campus, by then ALP leader Kim Beazley

Kim Beazley

In the October 1998 election, Labor polled a majority of the two-party vote and received the largest swing to a first-term opposition since 1934. However, due to the uneven nature of the swing, Labor came up eight seats short of making Beazley Prime Minister....

.

Barry Jones

Barry Jones (Australian politician)

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 was the principal planner of the Knowledge Nation blueprint, as chair of the Chifley Research Centre's Knowledge Nation Taskforce http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39154/20040506-0000/www.chifley.org.au/publications/indexf833.html?publicationID=8.

The most remembered element is a chart with many nodes and many tangled lines connecting these nodes, representing the many components of Australia's education system. This complicated chart prompted the ALP's opposing parties to dub the policy "Noodle Nation".

The policy was delevoped by the ALP's Chifley Research Centre

Chifley Research Centre

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 policy institute.

Australia's dominant news organisation News Limited

News Limited

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 offered to promote the package for $447,406. This included both advertising and favourable editorial. The ALP declined this offer. http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1193440.htm

See also

• Argument map
• Cognitive map
  Cognitive map
  Cognitive maps are a type of mental processing composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual can acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment.The...
  
  
• Concept map
  Concept map
  For concept maps in generic programming, see Concept .A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. It is a graphical tool for organizing and representing knowledge....
  
  
• Concept mapping software
• Conceptual graphs
• Knowledge visualization
• Mental model
  Mental model
  A mental model is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world. It is a representation of the surrounding world, the relationships between its various parts and a person's intuitive perception about his or her own acts and their consequences...
  
  
• Mind map
  Mind map
  A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Especially in British English, the terms spidergram and spidergraph are more common, but they can cause confusion with the term spider diagram used in mathematics...
  
   since 1975
• Object role modeling
  Object role modeling
  Object Role Modeling is a method for conceptual modeling, and can be used as a tool for information and rules analysis, ontological analysis, and data modeling in the field of software engineering.- Overview :...
  
  
• Semantic network
  Semantic network
  A semantic network is a network which represents semantic relations among concepts. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges.- History :...
  
  
• Semantic web
  Semantic Web
  The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
  
  
• World Wide Web
  World Wide Web
  The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
  
  - Information Management: A Proposal

External links

• Knowledge Nation Taskforce via Pandora
• Beazley Speech
• Media Watch reference