Department for Education; Svennevig, Hans; Sera, Shortland; (2024) Teach the Future: Citizenship programmes of study: key stages 3 and 4 National curriculum in England Track Changes Project. Teach the Future: London, UK.

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Citizenship education is about the knowledge, skills and actions of individuals and groups within a democracy. It examines the political, social, legal, moral and environmental aspects of advocacy, critical thinking and engagement within society through community involvement. Education for a Sustainable Environment (ESE) fits directly into the Citizenship curriculum due to its shared and common principles, values and ethics. Citizenship education is and has been a statutory part of the national curriculum since 2002. Further all children have to receive some form of citizenship education as established under the Ofsted inspection framework from 2019. Personal social health and economic education is currently still as of 2024 non-statutory. While Citizenship deals with the political governance of society, PSHE deals with personal relationships. Relationships and sex education can be included as part of PSHE and was made statutory by the Department for Education from 2020. RSE deals with families and friendships including respectful relationships with self and others and the use of online media within this context, i.e. being safe and legal elements related to this. Citizenship has strong ties to ESE as a plethora of examples and connections can be made throughout every aspect of the Citizenship curriculum ranging from individual rights, the responsibilities of governments, fairness, justice, democracy and government, citizens roles including with participation and action. Citizenship includes assessment as it is a GCSE examined. Citizenship assessments could include debates around topical ESE dilemmas, source-based questions on particular case studies through to full essay discussions on complex themes within this field. The examples below indicate how each part of the 2013 Citizenship national curriculum can be mapped to ESE. There are multiple cross-overs with each area of the Citizenship curriculum and a never-ending range of examples for teaching discussion, debate and advocacy that can be used including from local to global perspectives, so to begin we have given a starting point for teachers to have dialogue with their students that includes practical current affairs to ensure ESE is real and relevant to them. Citizenship is a dynamic subject and should always be topical which works well within the ESE context. Citizenship subject knowledge around key citizenship concept development includes providing young people with knowledge of the historical development of themes bringing them up to date with the impact of present day news experiences. Citizenship provides young people with skills that they can use to make informed choices, debate including influencing others as citizens. Key stage 3 has a range of examples that can be developed upon in Key stage 4 – some teachers may choose to start with examples in KS3 at KS4 and then scaffold, chunk and sequence these for further development to meet the requirements of the curriculum at these different levels i.e. one example can be used in both stages but at different levels of cognition. Citizenship GCSE textbooks from all the exam boards. We also suggest review and connection to the Association for Citizenship Teaching and resources here including Teaching Citizenship journals such as Issue 37 & 56 around Peace education and Issue 58 – Climate Empowerment. This document should not be considered as exhaustive and is a range of examples for each area.

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