Related Websites

On the following websites you will find further ideas for enhancing the citizenship education of your students. Some of them are very similar to those developed on this site and others are of a different nature.

The Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning responsible for citizenship education, as well as human rights and social justice, is CRUCIBLE, which is based at Roehampton University.

The Post 16 Citizenship website hosts a great deal of information about initiatives and services for those engaged in what might be described as ‘pre-university’ citizenship education. It therefore provides insights into some of the foundations on which citizenship education in higher education can be built.

For citizenship education in schools the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) website provides a good starting point. The ACT is the first professional subject association for Citizenship.

Another organisation that is concerned primarily with citizenship in schools is the Citizenship Foundation.

Funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (England), citizEd fosters collaboration with higher education for all providers of initial teacher education.

At European level CiCe: Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe is a Thematic Network linking university and college departments engaged in educating students about how children and young people learn about and understand, their society, their identity and citizenship.

Other FDTL Projects

This project is one of five projects in the field of politics and international relations being financed under Phase 5 of the Fund for the Development of Learning and Teaching (FDTL). The general aim of these projects is to stimulate developments in teaching and learning and promote the dissemination of good teaching and learning practice across the higher education sector’. The other projects are:

PREPOL: Developing a pre-entry and initial guidance package for the study of Politics and International Relations (lead institution: Nottingham Trent University)

The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics (lead institution University of Warwick) The principal aim of this project is to give students experience of the practice of politics through the provision of placements.

Case Based Learning in Politics: Problem-based case studies for enhancing work related learning in politics (lead institution: Huddersfield University )

PARLE: Politics Active Research Learning Environment (lead institution: Open University)
The principal aim of this project is to deliver a high quality research training program to postgraduates using an interactive multi-media package.