Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne is preparing for his shake-up of the national curriculum this week, now forming the group that will re-write the content Australian kids learn, again.

Mr Pyne announced late last week that academic experts he appoints will seek to correct a perceived imbalance in the national curriculum's content and broader ideology.

In short, the Education Minister believes the curriculum is too left-leaning, and does not do enough “to celebrate Australia, and for students, when they have finished school, to know where we've come from as a nation,” he says.

To construct the coming changes, which Mr Pyne hopes will be in place by 2015, former teacher and ex-Liberal Party staffmember Kevin Donnelly and University of Queensland Professor Ken Wiltshire have been appointed.

Both men have been vocal in their opposition to the current national curriculum, which was approved in 2010 and is still in its roll-out phase in some states.

In July last year, Prof Wiltshire accused the current document of having “no apparent values serving as its foundation”.

While it was being finalised in 2011, Dr Donnolly said the history portion of the present curriculum was “more like a cultural-left manifesto than a balanced and rational view of history as a discipline.”

Last week Mr Pyne said his two experts would be working on the new content alone, but on Thursday he revealed that they will be able to bring in help. It is unclear how many more may be added to the panel, or what their purpose will be. The Department of Education says it was always meant to be a consultative process.

Dr Donnelly has previously said he is concerned about the lack of religious studies in the “very secular curriculum”.

“When you look at Parliaments around Australia - they all begin with the Lord's prayer. If you look at our constitution, the preamble is about God.”

“You can't airbrush that from history - it has to be recognised,” he said.

The New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens believes public schools should reman secular.

“In a society where less than 30 per cent of members have a defined religion, it's a little bit disingenuous to then make children learn religious studies in schools,” said the Federation's Rachel Snowdon.

“It should be a family decision and schools shouldn't have that place.”