Summary:
This is Citizenship Studies is a major new course book for Key Stage 4 Citizenship education. It provides a structured programme of flexible learning activities that cover the knowledge, skills and understanding requirements of both the compulsory Citizenship curriculum and the GCSE short course specifications.

This book is equally suitable for both exam and non-exam courses. It takes the content of the main GCSE topics from AQA, OCR and Edexcel:

- Rights and responsibilities
- School, work and the local community
- National and European citizenship
- Global citizenship and the global village
- Government
- Power, politics and the media
- Participation and action

and builds them into a coherent and engaging course based on active learning and investigation, suitable for all abilities.

This is Citizenship Studies is comprehensively supported by a Teacher's Resource Book, which provides clear guidance on how to teach the unit, and worksheets to support most tasks in the Student's Book.

Table of Contents:
Section 1 Citizenship in a democracy
1.1 What is a democracy?
1.2 What is active citizenship in a democracy?
1.3 What is British democracy?
1.4 Democracy under threat
1.5 Identity cards - protection or restriction?
1.6 What is it like to live without freedom?
1.7 The Human Rights Act
1.8 Who are the British?
Section 2 How does the justice system work in England and Wales?
2.1 How does the law affect you?
2.2 What is the law?
2.3 Would you make a good police officer?
2.4 Rights on arrest
2.5 How does the youth justice system work?
2.6 How do the courts work?
2.7 Going to prison
2.8 Reducing crime
Section 3 Local government and community
3.1 'Community is good for you!'
3.2 Who provides what you need in the local community?
3.3 Where does the money come from for council services?
3.4 Who makes the decisions in your local area?
3.5 Oldtown
3.6 Regenerate!
3.7 What is Local Agenda 21?
Section 4 National government – who's running the country?
4.1 Who should run a country?
4.2 Would you give the vote to a sixteen-year-old?
4.3 How does someone become an MP?
4.4 Meet Oona King MP
4.5 What do political parties stand for?
4.6 Is 'first past the post' a good system?
4.7 House of commons virtual visit
4.8 How should MPs behave?
4.9 How do pressure groups try to influence MPs?
4.10 You the taxpayer
4.11 How would you reform the House of Lords?
4.12 What is the future of the monarchy in the UK?
4.13 Devolution
4.14 The European Union
Section 5 Money and work
5.1 What should Chris do?
5.2 'Money makes the world go around'
5.3 What is the economy?
5.4 Are you a confident consumer?
5.5 Working life: is it fair?
5.6 Who gets the job?
5.7 High pay - low pay
5.8 Would you join a trade union?
5.9 Workfare
5.10 Special assignments - work experience
Section 6 The media
6.1 How do the media affect you?
6.2 How do images influence us?
6.3 Who decides what's in the news?
6.4 Could you be a programme scheduler?
6.5 Why is freedom of the press important?
6.6 Investigative journalism
6.7 Is there too much press freedom?
6.9 Can you trust the internet?
Section 7 Living in a global community
7.1 A divided world
7.2 What is globalisation?
7.3 A poor world?
7.4 A better world for everyone
7.5 World organisations

About the Author(s):
Terry Fiehn and Julia Fiehn have been widely involved in many aspects of Citizenship Education and are thoroughly familiar with the requirements of the GCSE specifications; Andrew Miller is a national specialist in work-related learning and work experience.