Teaching Tomorrow’s Citizens

23/01/2017 54 min Episodio 97
Teaching Tomorrow’s Citizens

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Episode Synopsis

Schools are generally recognised as playing a crucial role in developing citizens of the future, helping to equip young people with the ability to debate and deliberate, to question, critique and understand differences in their communities. But with an already crowded curriculum, do we have to accept that the responsibility for citizenship education can’t – and indeed, shouldn’t - lie solely with schools?