Title: Giving School Giving Nation
1Giving SchoolGiving Nation
2What kind of society do we want?
3Society?
Consumer Function Market
Citizen Participate Commonwealth
For example
SpaceOwned, rentedMarket place
SpacePersonal - sharedCivic space
4What kind of schools do we want?
5Functional
Holistic?
6What kind of schools do we want?
Communal Holistic Values led
Individual Functional Market driven
Identity Citizen Creator Worth
Identity Consumer Producer Success
7Community-based Learning
Three reasons the community should contribute to
effective education
- SOCIETY needs engaged, effective citizens
- CHILDREN have a social, moral and formal
entitlement to citizenship education Every
Child Matters - THE LAW requires citizenship to be taught and
learned as an entitlement for every child.
8Community-based Learning
- SOCIETY needs engaged, effective citizens
- THE LAW requires citizenship to be taught and
learned as an entitlement for every child.
9Community-based Learning
Is the basis of CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION Which aims
to change the political culture of this country
10Community-based Learning
- Change the political culture of this country
- Weigh evidence
- Analyse issues
- Debate, reflect decide
- Act in traditional and new ways
111. Social and Moral Responsibility Pupils
learning from the very beginning self-confidence
and socially and morally responsible behaviour
both in and beyond the classroom, towards those
in authority and towards each other
The Three Strands
Social moral responsibility
123. Political Literacy Pupils learning about the
institutions, issues, problems and practices of
our democracy and how citizens can make
themselves effective in public life, locally,
regionally and nationally, through skills and
values as well as knowledge -
The Three Strands
Social moral responsibility
Political literacy
this can be termed political literacy, which
encompasses more than political knowledge alone.
13The Three Strands
2. Community Involvement Pupils learning how to
become helpfully involved in the life and
concerns of their neighbourhood and
communities, ... including learning through
community involvement and service.
Social moral responsibility
Political literacy
Community involvement
14Citizenship Programme of Study
Students participate and engage in responsible
action (community involvement) and in so doing
develop their skills of enquiry and communication
and become informed citizens.
- Participation and
- responsible
- action
Becoming informed citizens
Skills of Enquiry communication
15Whole Society
1. Purpose We aim to contribute to a world
that is Just Sustainable Peaceful
Prosperous International strategy for
education, skills and childrens services
Index
16 the Whole Child
People who are (i) healthy (ii) safe (iii)
enjoying and achieving (iv) contributing (v)
enjoying economic well-being Every Child
Matters
Purpose We aim to contribute to a world
that is Just Sustainable Peaceful
Prosperous International strategy for
education, skills and childrens services
Every child matters
17A Shared Agenda
People who are (i) healthy (ii) safe (iii)
enjoying and achieving (iv) contributing (v)
enjoying economic well-being Every Child
Matters
- Performance
- Our school will value develop
- Positive attitudes
- and behaviour
- Skills for life
- Knowledge
- Understanding
- Self Others Society The physical world
- NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Purpose We aim to contribute to a world
that is Just Sustainable Peaceful
Prosperous International strategy for
education, skills and childrens services
18What can we do about it?
19Community Involvement Can you help schools make
learning the link between civic and personal
challenges?
- Mentoring
- Project Development / Placement
- Skills development
- General Support
20Community Involvement Can you help schools make
learning the link between civic and personal
challenges?
- Extended Schools
- Community Learning Centres
- Building Schools for the Future
- City academies