Reviews: Citizenship Schools

“…All those concerned with enhancing citizenship through and in schools will find this book truly relevant, really important, greatly stimulating and, moreover timely.”

Professor Bernard Crick

“Citizenship Education will fail if it becomes just another subject in an already overcrowded curriculum. This important new handbook offers ideas and activities that will help to make active and inclusive conceptions of citizenship part of the everyday experience of schools as learning communities. Approached in this way, citizenship education could make a real contribution to the development of deep democracy.”

Professor Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, University of London

“Titus Alexander has pulled together so many strands of good practice within schools and placed them clearly within the framework of citizenship, making the term ‘citizenship school an accessible even desirable goal.” 

Jenny Mosley M.ed., Author, Teacher and Director of an Educational Consultancy 
 

“The establishment of Citizenship in active school environments is the best mechanism I can think of to imbue future generations with a clear sense of rights and responsibilities towards themselves and each other. This book is a timely and informative contribution to the understanding of the growing number of people with an interest in these issues.”

Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE, Chairman of the General Teaching Council

“I am pleased to endorse this new book by Titus Alexander, a highly respected educationalist committed to and well-known for the pursuance of fostering links between home and school, and schools and the community. This new book takes these ideas further and introduces a new dimension, that of citizenship education, which provides an encompassing framework for lifelong learning…”

Professor Sheila Wolfendale, University of East London

“…The book also sets out to break deadlock between education driven by standards and education shaped around personal development…Unless young people are motivated to learn, little learning will take place and both standards and young people will suffer. Alexander offers a model of how these two cultures can be brought together…”

John Potter, Director of Education, CSV

“Learning about democracy and how society makes decisions is an essential part of education. All school students have a right to leave school. Knowing  how to influence decisions that effect them. I am glad to endorse this publication.”

Graham Lane,  Local Government’s education leader

 “This book is tremendous.  The resources section is really comprehensive and useful.  I can imagine myself drawing on this for some time. There’s such a wealth of knowledge embodied in it.”

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, author of Positive Parenting, and Motivating your Child