Articles and reports

This section to the site contains articles and reports that have been written recently that have relevance for citizenship.

Last November, Nuffield Educcation for Citizenship ran a seminar in conjunction with ACT on the Future of Citizenship. It brought together key thinkers from the Citizenship community and provided an opportunity for debate and discussion about the evolving character of Citizenship. It was chaired by Professor Richard Pring and has led to this Citzenship: Looking Forward Report (2.9 MB).

The final report of the Advisory Group on Citizenship, Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (commonly known as the Crick Report) contains many useful concepts. You can download the report here (414 KB)

Active Citizenship and Young People: Opportunities, Experiences and Challenges In and Beyond School Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study: Fourth Annual Report to read the report click here (2.4 MB).

The Ofsted report (729 KB), Towards Consensus notes that 75% of schools are now doing well.

Here is an article which appeared in the PSHE and Citizenship Update of Optimus entitled Citizens and the Economy (41 KB).

This next article first appeared in the Autumn 2002 issue of the ACT magazine Teaching Citizenship. Although science issues discussed in the media may have changed, the issues in the classroom remain the same. See the article ACT article by Peter Campbell, Science and Citizenship in Schools (48 KB).