Archive for June, 2011

Teachers to lobby MPs on behalf of citizenship education

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

More than 130 teachers and a wide range of organisations met in the British Library yesterday to discuss the future of citizenship and the National Curriculum, at the Association for Citizenship Teaching’s annual conference in London. At Democratic Life we believe teachers and pupils have a key role in influencing the future of the curriculum […]

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Teaching approaches help young people build resilience to extremism

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

New report shows that teaching approaches can help young people build their resilience to extremism. There is growing recognition of the need to combat extremisms and develop young people’s resilience to potentially harmful ideologies to prevent them from being radicalised. Teachers and others working with young people have been identified as having a key role […]

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