Citizenship education: building for the future

Jerome, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-6986 and Moorse, Liz (2023) Citizenship education: building for the future. In: Who’s Afraid of Political Education: The challenge to teach civic competence and democratic participation. Tam, Henry, ed. Policy Press, Bristol, UK, pp. 163-179. ISBN 978-1-4473-6695-9. [Book Section]

PDF - Final accepted version (with author's formatting) Restricted to Repository staff and depositor only Download (266kB)

Abstract

This chapter deals with many of the issues that are discussed in greater detail elsewhere in this book. It approaches them from the practical perspective of the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT)1 in the UK, which is a membership organisation promoting high quality citizenship education for all. At the time this book was produced Citizenship had been a national curriculum subject in England for twenty years. This period generated a wealth of school-based experiments and saw the development of a cadre of experienced subject specialist teachers, which led to some principles that inform the work of ACT and which underpin its planning for the future. Our starting point is that good Citizenship teachers address the emotional dimension, the role of knowledge and rational argument, and the need for citizenship to be enacted. This approach continues to inform how teachers are responding to significant on-going and emergent challenges. In considering five of these challenges this chapter reflects on what the next twenty years might hold, and what Citizenship in schools might look like in the near future.

Actions (login required)

View Item

Statistics

DownloadsShow export options

Export as CSVXMLJSON

Activity Overview

6 month trend

2Downloads

6 month trend

61Hits

Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.