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Subject specialism is at the heart of teaching and Citizenship Education is at the heart of a whole school approach

By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 3 March 2022

By Hans Svennevig on 3 March 2022

In a time of global conflict, raised concerns about climate change and political disharmony, Citizenship Education is more important than ever. As a subject, it also ensures that young people can have discrete teaching within a whole school approach, bringing together what The 1998 Advisory Group on Citizenship guided by Sir Bernard Crick originally proposed. All subjects should be involved in whole school approaches, but to do that we need subject specialists.

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