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In alphabetical order below are the curriculum materials available from the LSIS Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme to support post-16 citizenship provision. An ‘at-a glance’ alphabetical list of curriculum materials with quick links to further details is also available. See also Citizenship News (the programme magazine), teaching and learning materials on specific citizenship topics and online versions of some of the resources below which include video content.
Summary: Like citizenship, action research is about having a positive effect on the quality of people’s lives. It is about seeking improvement both for the individual and for public and political reasons. As a form of practical enquiry it involves skills in planning, observing, reflecting and acting. Citizenship issues are usually bound up with the values of those involved, and it is easy to dismiss the views of others when you don’t agree with their values, creating a potential for conflict. This pack aims to describe the skills and associated knowledge needed to carry out action research in a citizenship context and support the development and application of these skills.A case for action? Skills for active citizenship research
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Summary: This collection of resources contains information and activities for young people learning about ten topical and often controversial citizenship issues. The aim of each resource is to introduce the key facts and arguments surrounding a citizenship topic and to provide introductory learning activities. These are designed to engage learners' interest in the topic and encourage them to research additional information and a wider variety of views from the references and websites provided. The materials should be seen as 'starters', since each topic is complex and should be examined in more depth than can be done in a few pages.
The topics available are:1. The European Union2. Voting and elections 3. The politics of food 4. Globalisation 5. Local democracy6. Sustainable development7. The abolition of slavery?8. Smoking and alcohol: the politics of bans9. Tax and pensions: political battlegrounds10. 'Let freedom ring': civil rights, human rights and the power of protestThe activities are aimed at post-16 students, but can be adapted for use with younger learners. You can download the resources here or order a complete set on CD-Rom. Note on section 5: You can download the local democracy quiz answers
Active citizenship: learning resources for topical issues
Summary: The activities in this pack can be used with either staff, within a training and development session, or learners, as part of their citizenship programme. They aim to introduce participants to the meaning of ‘controversy’; to provide techniques for dealing with controversy; and to build the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to use these techniques effectively. Each activity has suggestions for assessment of citizenship learning, to be used with young people and focused on the relevant learning objectives.Agree to disagree: Citizenship and controversial issues
Summary: This pack is intended to be a practical and accessible guide to citizenship teaching and learning through video production. The activities in this pack were, in part, developed while working with a group of young consultants to produce a DVD promoting post-16 citizenship to young people for the LSDA. Video is an effective medium for young people to express their views and, through involvement in a production process, they are able to learn more about putting forward a case or argument. Video is a particularly useful in a citizenship context because it allows young people to consider issues of concern to them and to develop their thinking about the wider social and political implications of their chosen topic.Choosing an angle: Citizenship through video production
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, the first of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, offers an overview of 14-19 developments of particular relevance to citizenship including ECM and the Common Inspection Framework, community cohesion, personalisation and learner voice, the GCSE and GCE qualifications in Citizenship Studies, the Diploma, Foundation, Higher and Extended Projects and Skills. This resource is available in electronic format only.
Overview of 14–19 developments
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, offers an explanation of ways in which personalised learning and learner voice are both integral to effective citizenship education. This Quick Guide also looks at the principles of effective practice and offers examples of practice in a range of post-16 contexts. This resource is available in electronic format onlyPersonalisation, learner voice and citizenship
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on progression in citizenship learning from the statutory provision in key stage 4 through the 14-19 phase of education and training. The guide covers citizenship in the National Curriculum, the new programme of study at key stage 4, building on key stage 4 citizenship learning, new qualifications and the Diploma. This resource is available in electronic format only.Building on key stage 4 citizenship
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, considers the contribution that citizenship learning can make to all aspects of the ECM agenda, with a particular focus on making a positive contribution. The Quick Guide contains examples of practice that highlight how citizenship can contribute to all five of the ECM outcomes. This resource is available in electronic format only. See also QDCA's Every Child Matters at the Heart of the Curriculum bookletCitizenship and Every Child Matters
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 -19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on new qualifications in Citizenship Studies at GCSE (full and short course options), AS and A levels, which provide the opportunity to combine academic study with practical citizenship action. This resource is available in electronic format only.GCSEs and GCEs in Citizenship Studies
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on opportunities for citizenship learning through Foundation, Higher and Extended Projects, which are all available as part of the Diplomas and as free-standing qualifications. This resource is available in electronic format only.Citizenship through foundation, higher and extended projects
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the opportunities for citizenship activities in the context of learning for qualifications in functional skills and key skills. This resource is available in electronic format only.Functional skills and key skills through citizenship
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the value of drawing out the close links between citizenship learning and the development of PLTS and looks at how citizenship offers a motivating context for developing a wide range of skills and applying them to real tasks, problems and situations. This resource is available in electronic format only.Citizenship and personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS)
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the opportunities for citizenship learning at entry level and level 1 within Foundation Learning. This resource is available in electronic format only.Foundation Learning and citizenship
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on how citizenship and social enterprise can be included in teaching and learning for 14 Diploma lines of learning. This resource is available in electronic format only.Citizenship, social enterprise and Diplomas
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on several aspects of the relationship between citizenship and community cohesion and the way in which an understanding of this relationship can enhance citizenship learning. This resource is available in electronic format only.Citizenship and community cohesion
Summary: This revised Quick Guide, one in a series of thirteen highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the concept of employability and the links that can be made with citizenship education. It considers employability in the curriculum, employability as a citizenship issue and the development of the PLT skill of effective participation. This resource is available in electronic format only.Citizenship and employability
Summary: This Quick Guide, one of a series of thirteen highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, provides key messages from the e-toolkit Creating a citizenship-rich organisation (LSIS 2010). This aims to support all providers in the review and development of post-16 citizenship provision, including colleges, school sixth forms, work-based learning providers, youth and community groups and those involved in offender learning. The guide also pulls together practitioners' learning from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme.
Whole organisation approaches to citizenship education
Summary: This resource is for practitioners involved in citizenship education who are interested in project work, and for those who may or may not be familiar with citizenship to support learners in undertaking foundation, higher and extended projects as a part of the Diploma or as a free-standing qualification. This resource looks at how citizenship projects can make a significant contribution to the overall aims of the curriculum, how to plan and support citizenship projects and also features activities designed to support project choice.Citizenship opportunities through foundation, higher and extended project
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programmes, gives an overview of the range of resources available to support the delivery of post-16 citizenship education. It also looks at essential features of post-16 citizenship education and contains a sample staff development activity highlighting things managers can do to support development for citizenship.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 1 Overview
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programmes, describes the key resources available to assist staff getting involved with post-16 citizenship education for the first time. It also looks at the variety of approaches for delivering post-16 citizenship and contains sample staff development activities to help stimulate discussion about definitions and benefits of citizenship education.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 2 Getting started
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, details the resources available to assist staff when dealing with controversial and sensitive issues. It introduces the notion of controversial issues in relation to citizenship and focuses on helping learners understand negotiation and debate as central to legitimate disagreement within a democracy. It also includes a sample activity for staff development which encourages staff to think about what they would do in hypothetical situations involving sensitive issues that could arise when working with their learners.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 3 Controversial issues
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, highlights the range of resources available to support staff in facilitating effective learner voice and involvement. It highlights the fact that all FE providers are required to have a learner involvement strategy in place and introduces approaches that can be used in the institution to promote learner voice. The publication also outlines principles of good practice for effective learner voice and includes a sample activity which encourages staff to discuss how effective learner voice can be developed.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 4 Learner voice
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, introduces diversity and community cohesion in citizenship and looks at the new duty on schools, and encouragement for colleges, to promote community cohesion and explore shared values. The publication presents the key resources available to assist staff in promoting diversity and community cohesion. It also includes a sample staff development activity which encourages staff to explore the notion of community and to think about how the same activity might be used with their learners.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 5 Diversity and community cohesion
Summary: This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, details the resources available to support effective staff development in maximising the links made with the key stage 4 programme of study for citizenship and post-16 Diploma studies. The publication highlights the opportunities the Diploma offers for citizenship and in turn how citizenship can make Diploma learning active and engaging. The publication also includes a sample staff development activity exploring effective participation in the Diploma lines of learning.Citizenship staff development quick steps: 6 Citizenship learning through Diplomas
Summary: This manual is aimed at personal tutors and tutor managers in all post-16 educational organisations. All parts of the post-16 sector are concerned with the personal and social development of young people and usually provide some space for this within their provision, whether it is termed 'group tutorial', 'lifeskills' or 'personal, social and health education'. The manual provides a citizenship perspective on some of the common themes that are often covered within the provision of personal and social development. It includes materials, activities and suggestions for tutors to use to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills that young people need to participate fully in a democracy and to develop their citizenship awareness.
Citizenship through tutorial: A staff manual with activities for personal and social learning
Summary: This DVD has been produced with an advisory group of young people who have themselves taken part in citizenship programmes. They have made this DVD to explain post-16 citizenship education to other young people. It contains examples of the many creative and engaging activities that can be used to explore the social and political issues that arise in citizenship and demonstrates how citizenship can be a fun and active way for young people to get involved in the issues that are important to them, have their say and make a difference. See also online version of this resource.Citizenship Uncovered: a young person's guide to post-16 citizenship
Summary: This pack provides information and materials for teachers and students of the first five Diploma Lines of Learning. It highlights the aspects of citizenship which can enrich and enliven Diploma teaching 'across the lines' and how young people can incorporate citizenship learning into their Diploma courses. This pack features activities which look at citizenship issues and debates relevant to the first five Lines of Learning. It also considers opportunities for citizenship within the generic learning elements of 'personal, learning and thinking skills', 'work experience' and the 'Extended Project'. The pack also contains activities aimed at encouraging Diploma students to consider how their voices will be represented in Diploma course planning. The teaching and learning activities in this pack are also available as amendable Word documents below so that you can adapt them for your own sessions: 1. Citizenship issues and actions 2. Debate 3. Investigating rights at work 4. Effective participation 5. Active citizenship and the Extended Project 6. Representatives See also additional citizenship teaching and learning materials relating to the first five lines of learning (only available online via the links below): Construction and the Built Environment Creative and Media EngineeringInformation TechnologySociety, Health and Development Crossing the lines: citizenship in the Diplomas
Summary: This is a practical introduction to discussion and debating skills development within a citizenship context. Learners are helped to express their opinions in a clear and logical way, to think critically and develop reasoned arguments about citizenship issues.For the sake of argument: discussion and debating skills in citizenship
Summary: This pack contains activities to build the foundations for citizenship learning with learners at the consolidation and application stages of entry level 1 (which includes the former pre-entry level) and at entry levels 2 and 3. They can also be adapted to be used more widely with learners and also in staff training and development. The activities are designed to promote thinking, understanding and action in the areas of cause and effect, social empathy and decision-making. The pack is designed to enable learners to develop a voice, build knowledge and skills for effective communication, enhance self-confidence, team working and a sense of personal identity, which are all building blocks of citizenship education.
Foundations of citizenship: Activities for learners at entry level
Summary: This resource pack, a booklet and CD, aims to introduce citizenship education to post-16 learners through the medium of music, song, poetry, or rap. It contains background information on the history of protest music, as well as activities that have been based on a workshop programme, trialled with young people in the LSDA post-16 citizenship programme. The pack is intended for teachers, lecturers, instructors, and youth leaders, working with young people, who may or may not have experience of writing music or lyrics.Get up stand up: Citizenship through music
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This publication aims to support the introduction of citizenship teaching and learning in the post-16 education and training sector. It is now updated to include guidance and case studies specific to post-16 education and training settings including colleges, school sixth forms, work-based learning, youth and community groups and offender learning. The publication also contains activities, checklists and other resources to help these organisations 'get started'. This revised edition also includes detail on six approaches to post-16 citizenship provision: learning voice and representation; qualifications and personalised programmes; group tutorial and enrichment programmes; voluntary and community-based activities; single citizenship events; and projects.
Getting started with post-16 citizenship
Summary: An active introduction for staff and learners to the skills needed to run a successful citizenship event. Activities focus on how the citizenship context impacts on the use of these skills and ways to help young people identify, develop, practise and apply the skills they need to be effective contributors to citizenship events, and to reflect on what they learn in the process.Getting the show on the road: skills for planning and running citizenship events
Summary: This pack has been produced to support the integration of citizenship into post-16 education and training and contains activities for use with learners in the whole range of post-16 settings. They build on Unit 12 of the QCA's schemes of work for key stage 4 citizenship and encourage learners to consider how individuals and groups can influence policies and strategies needed to make sustainable development a reality. The teaching and learning activities in this pack are also available as amendable Word documents below so that you can adapt them for your own sessions:1.Global own goals2.Opinion finders - sustainable development3.Choices and consequences4.Green taxes5.Sustained argument6.CampaignWhen using amendable versions of this resource please ensure it is credited appropriatelyHappy planet: sustainable development and citizenship
Summary: This pack looks at the social and political debates surrounding the Olympic and Paralympic Games that raise important citizenship issues which are likely to be of interest to young people, such as how can political differences between competitor countries interfere with the Games, and how can ordinary people have a say in the preparation for the Games and the events surrounding them. The pack explores eight relevant themes and includes supporting materials and activities which can be used flexibly with learners and can be adapted for the circumstances and interests of different groups of young people and learning contexts. After researching, examining and debating these issues, young people may also wish to take action to influence the course of events, to get more involved and encourage others to do so as well. This pack has been awarded the London 2012 Inspire Mark which recognises projects and events inspired by the London 2012 Games.Joining the game: Themes for post-16 citizenship
Summary: This pack can be used with staff engaged in training and development to help enrich learner voice through citizenship or with learners who have an interest in supporting and developing learner voice within their organisation. The pack promotes the link between citizenship education and improved learner involvement strategies and enables providers to raise the quality of their learner involvement strategies by reflecting on examples of practice and views of other staff. The pack includes training and development activities designed to accompany the video clips available online or on DVD-ROM which aim to stimulate discussion during staff training.Listening to learners? Citizenship and learner voice
Summary: This package of video and dvd has been produced as a staff development tool and is a follow up to our first resource package ‘Post 16 citizenship:what?why?how?' It uses as its framework the recently published QCA Guidance for post 16 citizenship.The examples shown on the video are intended to support the planning of post 16 citizenship programmes. We are grateful to the members of staff and students, trainees and learners from the projects for allowing us to use their experiences. See also online version of this resource.Make it happen: Effective Practice in Post 16 Citizenship
Summary: This interactive CD-ROM offers a comprehensive guide to post-16 citizenship. It has been developed to support staff interested in offering citizenship in education and training organisations and in community groups. It offers information, activities, resources and downloadable materials, it can be used by individuals for self study or by trainers with groups of staff. See also online version of this resource.Making it click: an interactive guide to post-16 citizenship
Summary: The title of the pack, More than profit, gives the message that the materials go beyond the narrow concerns of business and making returns on investment. The sub-title, work, social enterprise and citizenship, explains the focus on citizenship in workplace settings and the overlaps between citizenship and social entrepreneurship. The pack has been produced by the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme to help the integration of citizenship education into post-16 vocational and work-related learning programmes.More than profit: work, social enterprise and citizenship
Summary: This booklet illustrates how citizenship knowledge and skills can be developed through volunteering. Activities such as community involvement, service learning and youth-led projects are valuable for developing active citizenship. This booklet provides useful training and learning activities for those involved in youth volunteering and post-16 citizenship education and provides clear guidelines on how to ensure volunteering activities can also deliver valuable citizenship learning about social and political issues.More than volunteering: active citizenship through youth volunteering
Summary: Citizenship through Art aims to introduce citizenship education to post-16 learners through the medium of art. It is intended to be a fun and comprehensive guide for those directly involved in citizenship provision voluntary organisations, the youth service, training organisations, schools and colleges. It takes into account that some citizenship facilitators may have little or no knowledge of art.More than words: Citizenship through art
Summary: Many recent commentators agree that young people need the opportunity to discuss the issues relating to integration and cohesion. Both the report of the Commission for Integration and Cohesion, and Sir Keith Ajegbo's Curriculum Review of Diversity and Citizenship, stress the importance of citizenship education for future national stability. There is also a new duty on schools to promote community cohesion. The wider post-16 sector should also provide similar opportunities for its young people. This pack of materials aims to help you explore community cohesion with your learners in a citizenship context. You can also download the poster for Activity 2 here and the teaching and learning activities in this pack are also available as amendable Word documents below so that you can adapt them for your own sessions: 1. A sense of community 2. Images of my community 3. What is 'community cohesion'? 4. The facts, opinions and the role of the media 5. Faith Schools 6. The impact of unequal life chances 7. What might work? 8. What can we do?
When using amendable versions of this resource please ensure it is credited appropriatelyMoving forward together: citizenship learning for community cohesion
Summary: Personal and social development (PSD) is one of three inter-related components of Foundation Learning. The others are functional skills and vocational/subject learning. The aim of this Quick guide is to share key messages about PSD, including examples of interesting and emerging practice drawn from six organisational case studies.
Personal and social development (PSD) as part of Foundation Learning: Quick guide
Please note a revised and updated version of this resource is now available as part of Getting started with post-16 citizenship. Written for lecturers, tutors and managers in further education, tertiary and sixth-form colleges it highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship and describes the different approaches that can be taken and offers examples of how colleges have given students citizenship opportunities. It also gives details of resources that support citizenship activities, and useful websites and contacts.
Please note a revised and updated version of this resource is now available as part of Getting started with post-16 citizenship. Written for sixth-form teachers, tutors and managers, it highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship and describes different approaches that can be taken in a school sixth form and provides real examples of how schools have given students citizenship opportunities. It also gives details of resources that support citizenship activities, and useful websites and contacts.
Please note a revised and updated version of this resource is now available as part of Getting started with post-16 citizenship. Written for managers and trainers of Entry to Employment (E2E) and apprenticeship programmes, it highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship and describes different approaches that can be taken in a work-based learning setting and provides real examples of how WBL providers have given learners citizenship opportunities. It also gives details of resources that support citizenship activities, and useful websites and contacts.people in citizenship and recognising their achievements.
Please note a revised and updated version of this resource is now available as part of Getting started with post-16 citizenship. Written for youth workers and managers in youth services provided by local authorities and those working in community groups and the voluntary sector, it highlights the benefits of post-16 citizenship and describes different approaches that can be taken in a youth and community group context and provides real examples of how young people can benefit from citizenship opportunities. It also gives details of resources that support citizenship activities, and useful websites and contacts.
Summary: This guide examines the benefits that citizenship can bring and the ways in which leaders and coordinators can ensure that these benefits are embedded in the whole ethos of the organisation. The guide also considers how citizenship education can provide a vehicle and a context for many current educational initiatives for 14-19 year-olds.Post-16 citizenship: a guide for leaders and coordinators
Summary: The information and activities in this pack are primarily for use with those involved in initial teacher training for citizenship, but may also be valuable for trainee teachers in other curriculum areas and more experienced staff across the post-16 sector who are coming to citizenship education for the first time. The packs provides background on recent policy initiatives in post-16 citizenship, enables trainee teachers to consider what constitutes post-16 citizenship, the benefits of citizenship learning beyond the national curriculum and how such provision might be organised and encourages active learning and debate about these issues through five activities. These activities can form a half-day introductory training programme for post-16 citizenship. Post-16 Citizenship: A guide for trainee teachers
Summary: An introductory video and CD-ROM package, with explanatory booklet, for use in staff development for post-16 citizenship to address the questions of what citizenship is, what the benefits are and how to deliver it.Post-16 Citizenship: what? why? how?
Summary: This pack is aimed at facilitators wishing to use simulations in a programme of active citizenship, in which learners are encouraged to take some real action in their organisation or community. Using the activities in this pack facilitators can help learners prepare for their action, gain new interpersonal skills, increase their confidence and check out reality, by exploring some of the possible viewpoints about, and implications of, the proposed action. This pack can be used to help learners gain a better understanding of issues they are unlikely to have direct experience of; they can find out about the implications of a range of social and political issues from the safety of their own classroom or training area.Reality Check: Citizenship through simulation
Summary: Giving young people a voice builds their confidence, self-esteem and motivation and encourages them to develop and interest in current events. It helps them to develop and express their own opinions while listening to others. It is an important way of developing their citizenship skills and empowering them to take action on matters that concern them. Recent initiatives, such as the FE White Paper aim to increase the opportunities for young people in Further Education to comment on how they learn and what they learn. Guidance on the new order for all providers to put learner involvement strategies in place will be available from April 2007. This booklet provides advice on how to set up effective opportunities for learners to get their voices heard as part of citizenship activities.Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 1. Citizenship through learner voice and representation
Summary: This booklet examines and illustrates approaching post-16 citizenship through qualifications and personalised programmes. This booklet outlines case studies that demonstrate some of the creative and innovative ways organisations have found to link to citizenship activity to existing programme requirements or qualifications.Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 2. Citizenship through qualifications and personalised programmes
Summary: This booklet explores how to approach post-16 citizenship through tutorial and enrichment programmes by giving young people timetabled opportunities to meet regularly in personal or pastoral tutor groups. Tutorial is increasingly seen as a chance to develop citizenship learning to fulfil the wider ambitions of putting citizenship at the heart of education set down in the 14-19 white paper (2005).Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 3. Citizenship through group tutorial and enrichment programmes
Summary: This booklet explores approaching post-16 citizenship through voluntary and community-based activities and how they create links with the wider community and get young people involved in real situations, new experiences and wider activities and thereby foster a sense of belonging, profile and pride in their community.Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 4. Citizenship through voluntary and community-based activities
Summary: This booklet examines approaching post-16 citizenship through single events that can take the form of small, short workshops, or large whole-day or residential conferences. This booklet highlights how planning and running an event on a citizenship issue that young people have identified as important to them is motivating, stimulating and enjoyable.Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 5. Citizenship through single events
Summary: This booklet explores how to approach post-16 citizenship through research projects. These projects can be undertaken by individuals or groups. By involving young people in choosing the citizenship issues to investigate their work has more relevance and increases their motivation. This booklet explores what opportunities citizenship research projects should offer.Six approaches to post-16 citizenship: 6. Citizenship through research projects
Summary: Staff development plays an essential part in effective post-16 citizenship in all types of organisation. Whether you work with learners in a training organisation, students in a school or FE college, or with young people in the Youth Service or through voluntary organisations, staff will expect personal development and support as they introduce and develop citizenship, irrespective of the size of your team. This pack is a brief and practical introduction to help you and your team get started with staff development for citizenship. Designed to be used by people in all types of organisation, it gives practical suggestions for planning, delivering and evaluating successful staff development.Staff development for post-16 citizenship: Guidance and materials for citizenship co-ordinators and staff developers
Summary: The government has recognised the importance of encouraging offenders to develop new skills which enable them to function successfully in society and employment. This pack provides information, case studies and educational materials for introducing citizenship into programmes designed to better prepare young offenders for life in the community. Citizenship provides opportunities for young offenders to engage in debate about the kind of world that they want to live in and their own responsibilities in making such a world possible.Straight talking: citizenship and offender learning
Summary: Citizenship education is essential for ESOL learners who are having to become familiar with a different culture and political system. Citizenship can give ESOL learners the confidence and skills to become integrated members of communities, which become more socially cohesive as a result. This pack of resources focuses on the needs of learners aged 16-19 and contains activities which can be used with learners as part of a citizenship programme or in free-standing ESOL classes. The teaching and learning activities in this pack are also available as amendable Word documents below so that you can adapt them for your own sessions: 1. Introduction to citizenship in the learning community 2. The environment - choices for the future 3. How old do you have to be? 4. Multicultural Britain 5. Who do you think you are? 6. Voting and protest The language of citizenship: activities for ESOL learners
Summary: This pack encourages an active exploration of society, aiming to explore issues, challenge opinion and share conclusions through the medium of photography. The pack is based on the work of learners taking part in an active citizenship project.The Real Picture: Citizenship through photography
Summary: The activities in this pack are designed to be used with learners as part of a citizenship programme. They provide a range of ways of encouraging debate about the concepts of 'identity', 'cultural identity' and 'national identity'. It also includes two DVDs, one (Diversity, identities and citizenship: Discussion and activities) is a recording of a workshop with 12 young people from a wide range of different backgrounds at which some of the activities in this pack were trialled, which can be accessed online as well as hard copy. The other DVD (Young, British and Muslim) produced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office aims to portray the variety of lifestyles and views of Muslims in Britain. This DVD can only be accessed in hard copy. The pack also includes, as inserts, a poster of the ‘Images of Britain’ and other prints.We all came here from somewhere: Diversity, identities and citizenship
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