ABSTRACT
Support ing act ive learning in c it izenship This book heralds the important principle promoted by John Dewey (1900) that schools have the responsibility to bring democracy into schools and classrooms. The activities in this book support this premise and implementing them may have far reaching consequences for the experience of teachers and learners as they are underpinned by particular pedagogical approaches. These approaches are participatory, open-ended and interactive. They come from an established and radical tradition based on the writings of Paulo Freire (1972) and Carl Rogers (1983). They take as fundamental the tenet that in order to educate children to think and to participate, one must use interactive participatory methods of teaching.The methodology has been developed by the World Studies Trust, Development Education Centres and individuals such as Richardson (1976), Fisher (1980), Fisher and Hicks (1985), Hicks and Steiner (1989) and Pike and Selby (1988). Indeed the sub-title of this book ‘Ideas into Action’ has been purposefully chosen in recognition of a previous seminal publication of this name.
