I'm posting my submission to the curriculum review in case it's of wider interest. As ever, I'm very happy to discuss this with...

In this blog I share my initial thoughts on the way education is discussed in the Commission’s report. In essence it seems to set up an...

I thought the government was going to achieve something worthwhile with its commitment to establish Relationships and Sex Education as a...

Most organisations will have a story to tell about how they came into being and how they developed – a kind of foundational myth. With...

Many citizenship teachers are currently struggling to make sense of the new GCSE specifications and understandably feel overwhelmed by...

The literature on ‘learning progressions’ illustrates the importance of teachers developing a coherent sense of how their subject can be...

It’s clearly useful to think about how young people acquire and use knowledge and understanding in relation to citizenship. In particular...

To start this blog I want to mention 3 influential thinkers, whose ideas come together in interesting ways for citizenship teachers....

In citizenship education we have tended to veer between the old false binary of knowledge and skills. On the one hand, Civics lessons,...

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of knowledge in school curricula, and in England this is often...

Ted Wragg wrote a great publication a long time ago with this catchy title. He was writing about teachers' obsessions with target...