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Case Studies

This section of the site contains examples of how other teachers have delivered various aspects of Citizenship across all phases of education.

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General Citizenship resources and information

Resources that support cross phase Citizenship education


Primary

Using Philosophy for Children in Citizenship

Students in Y7 were happy to learn about issues in Citizenship but were largely unsure how to engage actively in discussion and debate. They were generally used to a fairly passive role in many areas of learning and many lacked the confidence and self esteem to develop and promote personal opinions.


Secondary

Building Pupil Voice

School Council met infrequently and there were no clear processes in place for the gathering of student’s opinions or for the feeding back of information from the School Council meetings.

Conflict Diamonds

We wanted to see learners who were enthusiastic about a subject working together to produce work of a high standard. Here's how we did it, including the full scheme of work, by engaging them in an issue they really cared about. The issue was Blood Diamonds.

Revitalising our School Council

In the beginning the bulk of students had some knowledge about voting and how elections worked, but were personally apathetic and disinclined to participate in the process. The mechanisms for accessing and using the council as a means for change were not present. The council had not been run for a year. Meetings were often poorly attended and unless individual representatives were ‘pushy’, nothing got done. This document explains how it was all changed for the better.


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