Citizenship Education
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John Bolton, BA(chs) year 3 Citizenship Education What controversial issues might arise in the classroom, and how might they be dealt with? This issue can be split into two discussions, and before either can be entered into, a brief examination of citizenship education would be helpful. Citizenship is a wide-reaching subject, embracing existing curricular topics as well as introducing new concepts. In autumn of 1998, Professor Bernard Crick produced the report of the Advisory Group on Citizenship, which can be regarded as something of a bible for educationalists studying this subject. For a definition of citizenship as a concept, there can be no higher authority to turn to than the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, David Blunkett; It is essential that we do more to help young people develop a full understanding of their roles and responsibilities as citizens in a modern democracy, and to equip them better to deal with the difficult moral...

