ABSTRACT
This chapter will give you an overview of the areas of values and citizenship education that are frequently linked in debates on educational policy and the curriculum. The exact term ‘values education’ is one that you may or may not have encountered in your study and teaching so far. In most countries it is not a term used to denote a distinct part of the curriculum; in Britain, for instance, there are probably no teachers actually employed to teach ‘values education’ under that name, although there are teachers employed to teach, or to co-ordinate, areas of the curriculum which certainly involve values, including religious education, personal social and health education (PSHE) (which has been discussed in Chapter 4) and citizenship education.
