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Education Studies continues to grow as a popular undergraduate area of study. This core text addresses themes common to all Education Studies courses. It benefits from a large list of chapters from key contributors at key institutions. This third edition has been completely revised and updated with the addition of seven new chapters. Themes newly explored include gender, research, the power of money and status and alternatives to schooling. This fully comprehensive text is accessibly written, with learning features throughout to encourage students to approach issues critically. Fully up-to-date and covering a huge range of themes for Education Studies students.
Education for Citizenship and Democracy
Education for Citizenship and Democracy
Introduction
In 1998, under the guidance of Professor Bernard Crick, an Advisory Group on Citizenship issued its report on Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (QCA, 1998). The outcome of this report was the introduction of citizenship education to primary-aged pupils from September 2000, and to secondary pupils from September 2002. Crick had concluded that there were three principal strands of the citizenship curriculum: social and moral responsibility, community involvement, and political literacy. The third of these, political literacy or education for democracy, has had less attention than other aspects of citizenship education and Crick later acknowledged that his committee's recommendations for teaching politics were limited. This chapter looks at different ...
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