Citizenship education in English Schools

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Citizenship education in English Schools

• A subject and more than a subject

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Outcomes from the session

• Understand what we mean by Citizenship education
• Considering Citizenship education in your setting

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Crick 1998, page 7 para 1.1

• Citizenship and the teaching of democracy.is so
  important both for schools and the life of the
  nation that there must be a statuary requirement
  on schools to ensure that it is an entitlement of
  all pupils. It can no longer be left as
  uncoordinated local initiatives

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Roots of the subject political background

• The Great Debate after 1976 the ineffectiveness
  and inefficiency of schools
• The rise of the national curriculum 1986
• Cross curricular themes 1990 CG8 education for
  Citizenship
• Crick 1998
• Citizenship foundation subject 2002
• Developments across Europe and beyond

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Roots of the subject social background

• Increased population movements and community
  turbulence
• A greater interplay between cultures and values
• A struggle to maintain personal and national
  identity
• The changing demands on education and life long
  learning frameworks including he development of
  social and moral thinking

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Cohesion
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Courtesy
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test
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Change
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Why do we need Citizenship education in schools?

• To develop understanding of legal and human
  rights
• To build political participation and address the
  democratic deficit
• To challenge social exclusion by creating
  engaged, effective and informed communities
• To counter prejudice and xenophobia

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Citizenship is controversial !

• It is about public issues on which people hold a
  range of opinions and on which they may be
  divided
• It has a values dimension at its core making it
  inherently about what people believe, think and
  feel but the values may well be contested and not
  fit a liberal consensus
• Issues are topical and may remain within the
  public domain for some time
• In any Citizenship education situation, we should
  ask What does it look like? What does it feel
  like?

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Useful web sites

• www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk the national
  Citizenship teachers association
• www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk about
  citizenship in education and the wider setting
• www.citized.info teacher training and Citizenship
• www.dcsf.gov.uk - about the Citizenship
  curriculum
• www.qca.org.uk - about the Citizenship
  curriculum and assessment
• www.ofsted.gov.uk about inspection
• www.nfer.ac.uk/research/citizenship - about
  current research
• www.lsneducation.org.uk Post 16 Citizenship
• www.newsecondarycurriculum.org Log on to the web
  site of CfBT
• www.thinkingprimary.org Log onto the revised
  Primary site