Democratic Life member Lee Jerome writes to Graham Holley of the TDA querying the apparent lack of training places for citizenship teachers in 2011/12, following a letter from Michael Gove outlining the allocations for the coming year. 2nd February 2011 Re: Allocation of secondary training places for 2011-12 Dear Mr Holley Michael Gove’s letter of […]
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Democratic Life meets with Secretary of State for Education
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
On Monday, 31 January, a Democratic Life delegation – led by David Blunkett MP – met with the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP, to discuss the review of the National Curriculum and citizenship education’s future. We presented a robust case for citizenship education’s contribution to schools and communities and the positive impacts […]
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
The Democratic Life team have been working almost non-stop over the last few weeks, with the reception event at the House of Commons and the curriculum review yesterday. So we were really pleased that our hard work paid off with two positive pieces of coverage in the Guardian this week! The first piece ‘Citizenship education […]
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Democratic Life welcomes the coalition Government’s plans for a review of the National Curriculum as an opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of citizenship education. Citizenship education – the only subject in the National Curriculum that teaches about the way democracy, politics, the economy and the law work – is one of the subjects (among others […]
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
This morning the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP, took to the airwaves to announce the launch of a review of the National Curriculum. Speaking on the Today programme, Mr Gove said that he wants to see a system which does not tell teachers ‘how to teach, it tells them what to teach.’ […]
…Continue reading 'National Curriculum review launched, but details patchy'Democratic Life partners tell Guardian 'Don't scrap citizenship'
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
In an article in today’s Guardian, Chris Waller from the Association for Citizenship Teaching and Andy Thornton, Chief Executive of the Citizenship Foundation, both argue that losing citizenship education from England’s National Curriculum would be a retrograde step that would negatively impact on young people’s political literacy. Also speaking to the Guardian, David Blunkett said: […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
Students from Biddenham International School and Sports College decided to add to the Democratic Life campaign by giving their own testimonies about why they feel that citizenship education is essential to the curriculum. They wrote letters in support of keeping citizenship education in the curriculum and in their own way described how it is important […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
After hearing about the Democratic Life’s campaign, teachers and administrators from Biddenham International School and Sports College felt that it was important to share their support for citizenship education. Mr. Doug Wise, Head of English at Biddenham showed his passion of the subject through connecting citizenship to the English curriculum; “It gives the texts we […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
After what would seem to be months of planning, the Democratic Life reception last night went off without a hitch. We filled the Member’s Dining Room in the House of Commons full of citizenship enthusiasts, teachers, students and Lords and MPs. Our aim for the event was to generate a lively discussion about the future […]
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Twittersphere lends its support to Democratic Life
Friday, January 14th, 2011
I had the frantic task at this week’s Democratic Life reception of tweeting the whole event using our (highly original) hashtag of #democraticlife. It was great to see people both at the event and online engaging in the discussion about citizenship’s future. Here are some of the comments; @DemocraticLife Blunkett speaking now, ‘for young people […]
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