Publications

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 Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the contribution of citizenship to community cohesion and the Government initiatives surrounding it. It looks at the contribution citizenship can make to community cohesion and how it can be promoted by organisations.

Citizenship and community cohesion

Summary: This Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the relationship between citizenship and employability. It considers employability in the curriculum, employability as a citizenship issue and the development of the PLT skill of effective participation.

Citizenship and employability

Summary: This Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on citizenship through Extended Projects offered from September 2008 as a stand-alone, Level 3 qualification for A Level students and as a compulsory qualification for a Level 3 Diploma.

Citizenship through extended projects

Summary: This Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on new qualifications which are now, or will shortly be, available including new full GCSE and new AS and A level in Citizenship Studies.

New citizenship qualifications

Summary: This Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on how citizenship and social enterprise can be included in teaching and learning for the first five Diploma lines of learning.

Citizenship, social enterprise and Diplomas

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

Crossing the lines: citizenship in the Diplomas

Summary: This Quick Guide, one in a series of twelve highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on Key Skills and Functional Skills through citizenship.

Key Skills and Functional Skills through citizenship

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?
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Moving forward together: citizenship learning for community cohesion

Summary: This Quick Guide, one of a series of twelve highlighting 14-19 opportunities for citizenship, focuses on the contribution of citizenship to the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda. The Quick Guide contains examples of practice that highlight how citizenship can contribute to all five of the ECM outcomes. See also QCA's Every Child Matters at the Heart of the Curriculum booklet

Citizenship and Every Child Matters

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 goals
2.Opinion finders - sustainable development
3.Choices and consequences
4.Green taxes
5.Sustained argument
6.Campaign

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Happy planet: sustainable development and citizenship