Nuffield Citizenship
The Nuffield Foundation citizenship teaching resources are available to members on the Association for Citizenship Teaching website [1].
About Nuffield Citizenship
Our Citizenship project developed a range of cross-curricular resources for KS3 and KS4. We worked with teachers to develop resources aimed at teaching Citizenship through other subjects: Business Studies, English, Geography, Maths, History, Languages, PE and Science.
We also developed standalone projects including 'Running a campaign' and (with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics) 'The use of animals in research'.
Book
In addition to the teaching resources, we developed a book for teachers and student teachers. Learning Citizenship: Practical teaching strategies for secondary schools [2] was written by Jenny Wales (Nuffield Citizenship Project Director at the Nuffield Foundation) and Paul Clarke from University College Worcester.
This book shows how a variety of teaching strategies can be used to teach citizenship skills across a range of curriculum subjects as well as in Citizenship lessons themselves. Topics covered include:
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developing discussion
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thinking through debate
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addressing controversial issues
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investigating citizenship
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learning through role play
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working in groups
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learning with simulations
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participation.
Impact report
In October 2009 the Nuffield Foundation held a seminar to explore the impact that Citizenship education has had on schools, communities and individuals. The seminar was chaired by Richard Garner, Education Editor of The Independent.
Download the seminar report:
The contribution of citizenship education to schools, communities and individuals (PDF) [3]