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ISBN-10: 0340926821

Published: 28/07/2006

Extent: 384 pages

Illustrations: NA

 

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Summary:
This book provides an authoritative collection of key papers including contributions from leading players at the Citizenship Foundation, ACT and ATSS. Arranged in six sections, including dedicated chapters on range of established subjects and on specific Citizenship related areas and themes it:

Addresses the need to establish Citizenship as a National Curriculum subject, an aspect of school culture and a means of engaging the school with the wider community
Considers the use of a range of curriculum models and assesses the contribution that practitioners from different subject areas can make to the delivery of Citizenship



Developing Citizens is perfect for use alongside Making Sense of Citizenship (ISBN 0340 926 813)

• Written by the leading educators in the citizenship field - with 28 contributors in all
• Endorsed by the Citizenship Foundation
• Several of the chapters draw on OFSTED advice and have been used at a key opinion formers seminar at the DFES

Table of Contents:
PART ONE CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL EDUCATION: Contexts, Issues and requirements
1.1 The Fate and Fortunes of the Social Curriculum and the Evolution of Citizenship: A Historical Overview
1.2 Foundations and Baselines for Citizenship: The NFER Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study
1.3 Citizenship in the National Curriculum: Contexts, Requirements and Expectations
PART TWO FOUNDATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP: The Arts and Humanities
2.1 From Art and Design to Citizenship: The Role of Built Environment Education
2.2 Drama and the Citizenship Curriculum: Engagement and Enquiry as a Creative Process
2.3 Not ‘whether’ but ‘how soon’!: English and the Citizenship Curriculum
2.4 Citizenship and Geography: Opportunities for Participation
2.5 Citizenship and History: An Easy Alliance?
2.6 Citizenship and the Humanities: Bridging the Boundaries
2.7 Philosophy for Children: Implications and Opportunities for the Citizenship Classroom
PART THREE FOUNDATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP: The Social And Business Sciences
3.1 Developing Economic Citizens: Business, Enterprise and Economics for All
3.2 Learning about the Law: Education for Legal Awareness
3.3 From Media Studies for Some to Media Literacy for All: Towards a New Citizenship?
3.4 Citizenship and Financial Literacy: The Role of Personal Finance Education
3.5 From Political Education to Political Literacy: Equipping Young People for Life in a More Genuine Democracy
3.6 Sociology and Citizenship: Laying the Foundations of the Social Curriculum
PART FOUR FOUNDATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP: Technology, Science and Mathematics
4.1 Information, Communication and Learning Technologies: Equipping the Digital Citizen
4.2 Citizenship Education and the Social Implications of Science and Scientific Learning
4.3 Designed for Citizenship? Innovation, Technology and Social Responsibility
4.4 Figuring out Citizenship: Support from the Mathematics Classroom
PART FIVE OBJECTIVES FOR CITIZENSHIP: Cross-curricular Themes, Dimensions and Skills
5.1 Education for Diversity and Equality
5.2 Education for a Green World: Learning about the Environment and Sustainability
5.3 Education for a Just World: Development Education and Global Education
5.4 Education for a Safer World: Conflict, Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
5.5 Education for Employability and the Workplace
5.6 Education for Effective Engagement: Key Skills and the Skills of Citizenship
5.7 Education for Democracy and as a Democratic Process
5.8 Education for Community Involvement and as Service Learning
5.9 Education for Health and Well-being: Citizenship within the National Healthy School Programme
PART SIX STRUCTURES FOR CITIZENSHIP: Meeting the Leadership and Management Challenge
6.1 Citizenship in Secondary Schools: Management, Organisation and Identity
6.2 Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education: Clarifying and Managing their Roles and Relationship
6.3 Religious, Moral and Spiritual Education and Citizenship: Managing and Building on the Interface
6.4 Delivering National Curriculum Citizenship: Comparing and Applying Curriculum Models
6.5 Calling Citizenship to Account: Accreditation, Assessment and Inspection
6.6 Calling the School to Account for Citizenship: Inspection, Self-Assessment and the Quest for Quality
CONCLUSION PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER: Effective Citizenship education as a reality in the secondary school

About the Author(s):
Tony Breslin is Chief Executive at the Citizenship Foundation, a member of the Council of the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) and a Vice President and former Chair of the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences (ATSS). A qualified OFSTED inspector and former Chief Examiner at GCSE (Social Sciences) and Principal Examiner at A level (Sociology), he has written widely on Social Science teaching, Citizenship Education, the future of schooling and lifelong learning. Tony has taught and held middle and senior management positions at state schools in Hertfordshire and Haringey and was formerly General Adviser 14-19 and Vocational Education in the London Borough of Enfield.

Barry Dufour teaches a wide range of education courses at the University of Leicester School of Education, De Montfort University and Loughborough University. He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on the social curriculum in schools. His main publications include The New Social Studies (1973) with Professor Denis Lawton, New Movements in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1982) and The New Social Curriculum (1990). He also has extensive experience in LEA advisory and inspection work and as an independent consultant to inner city schools. His other specialisms include disruptive behaviour in schools and school management. A founder member of the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences (ATSS), he holds several fellowships and vice presidencies with national education organisations and serves on their committees.

Readership:
citizenship teachers and educators

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