ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a summary of some of the paths and signposts to which conference participants attached value. It describes the aims of education for citizenship identified by National Curriculum Council. The role of the individual within the community is inherent in these aims. Citizenship education, therefore, needs to be developed in active and experiential ways in real contexts. In this way pupils can acquire and practise life skills and supplement more formal ways of learning. The school itself is a community which consists not just of pupils and teachers but of all people who work in or have an interest in the school, including lunch time supervisors, ancillary or teaching support staff, cleaning staff, site supervisors, volunteers, parents and governors. School communities contain people other than teachers and pupils. What has been said about understanding and sharing values and about self-esteem applies to all who work in the school.
