Summary: This is Citizenship is a major new course for Citizenship education in secondary schools. It provides a structured programme of flexible activities which cover all the knowledge, skills and understanding requirements of the compulsory Citizenship curriculum. This is Citizenship 2 tackles the same themes as Book 1: 1 Rules and fairness 2 Rights, responsibilities and tolerance 3 The community and local government 4 National government 5 Mass media 6 The world as a global community. It revisits these themes at a higher level, with more advanced case studies and activities for Y8 and Y9. Together these books provide all you need for Key Stage 3. The classroom-friendly activities are carefully designed to: - be flexible for use on their own or as part of your own school-designed scheme of work - be accessible to all abilities and easy to prepare and use - promote knowledge and understanding and to develop skills of empathy, communication, participation and responsible action - allow you to incorporate local initiatives which reflect the needs of your own school community. The Pupil's Book is comprehensively supported by a Teacher's Resource Book which provides further help with differentiation.
Table of Contents: Section 1: Rules, fairness and participationDoes the law treat young people fairly?Section 2: Human rights and responsibilities - mutual respect and understandingEqual rights for all?Section 3: Local government and communityHow can you have a say in local decisions?Section 4: Central government and ParliamentHow does politics work?Section 5: The media and societyWhat is news?Section 6: Global citizenshipCan you change the world?
About the Author(s): Terry Fiehn has been an Advisory Teacher for History and is currently part of the PGCE team at the London Institute of Education. He is an established author of History textbooks.Julia Fiehn has been a Head of Social Studies and an Advisory Teacher for Political Education. She is currently manager of a 16-19 citizenship development programme for the Learning and Skills Development Agency.Both have worked with organisations such as the TUC and the Anti-Slavery Foundation to create active learning materials; to enhance pupils' citizenship education; to promote active learning; to develop key skills; and to promote vocational learning.
