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Pathways to Citizenship is a well-established course for
pupils aged 14-16, developed to address the absence of a
co-ordinated approach to ethical and political literacy
in the secondary curriculum. It takes as its starting point
the contestability of current citizenship education in a
globalised world. It examines critically the conditions
of possible citizenship rather than describing a series
of social or national givens. It also uses citizenship issues
to develop critical thinking skills.
It is organised round the themes:
- The Local and the Global
- The Private and the Public
- Representation and Reality
- The Past, Present and Future
- Power
This thematic approach allows the course to be inflected
according to local needs, facilitates updating and allows
a vocabulary of citizenship across nationalities and cultures.
After four years, the course has begun to revise traditional
approaches to PSE and to link and integrate with humanities
subjects.
The course was devised by teachers experienced in the International
Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge course and has proved
a useful preparation for this diploma requirement
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