Clear practical advice and some fresh ideas and encouragement for teachers. To return to publication list click here. 15.95 This book provides a framework for Citizenship Education within contexts of cultural diversity. Underpinning Citizenship Education has to be an understanding and practice of human rights. The contributors show how human rights principles are used by schools to challenge structural inequality, discrimination and exclusion and to support young people in developing confident identities in contexts of cultural diversity.
Case studies illustrate how students can realise their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
Leading researchers and expert teachers worked over two years, in seminars funded by the ESRC and in debate with Bernard Crick, to produce this authoritative and coherent work. This publication is the core text for continuing professional development courses in Citizenship Education at MA and MEd level and will also be required reading on initial teacher training. The book is essentially designed for the UK but international and comparative approaches are provided by several contributors. To return to publication list click here. Through a meticulous analysis of inspection reports and documents, the researchers reveal how, even where there is compelling evidence of racial inequalities in a school's educational provision, issues concerning ethnic differentials in attainment and exclusion rates, racial harassment or the support provided for pupils who have English as an additional language are rarely reported to teachers, parents and governors.