ABSTRACT

The final report of the Advisory Group (QCA 1998) advocates the use of a wide range of resources with which to teach citizenship, including the use of politically biased material from, for example, political parties. Also, organisations such as Oxfam, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and development education centres all develop and publish teaching and learning material which can be used across both geography and citizenship. However, Winter (1997: 181) argues, in relation to certain resources, namely textbooks, that: ‘geography teachers need to both review text books critically in order to reject those which show evidence of ethnocentric bias and to select and develop materials which address such issues’.