ABSTRACT
In Scotland aspects of citizenship are embedded within the curriculum area of social studies, and global citizenship is promoted as a key context for learning across the curriculum. In Wales the government’s non-statutory framework for personal and social education includes aims of empowering learners to participate in their schools and communities as active responsible citizens locally, nationally and globally and fostering positive attitudes and behaviour towards the principles of sustainable development and global citizenship. In 2014 the Department for Education in England published advice for schools on promoting ‘fundamental British values’ as part of the existing requirement to promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Much of citizenship education might be said to be about socialisation: passing on the norms, customs, values and ideologies of our society to enable our children to function in that society.
