Teach pupils to challenge authority
Independent [UK]
09/27/06
Pupils should be encouraged to challenge authority in new-style citizenship lessons, school inspectors will say today. A report by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, rejects the notion that the lessons -- made a compulsory part of the secondary school curriculum four years ago -- should be about teaching 'compliance, good behaviour and the acceptance of values.' It says that much of the best practice it has seen in schools has focused instead onchallenging and promoting a 'critical democracy'...
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article1768847.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/27/06
Pupils should be encouraged to challenge authority in new-style citizenship lessons, school inspectors will say today. A report by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, rejects the notion that the lessons -- made a compulsory part of the secondary school curriculum four years ago -- should be about teaching 'compliance, good behaviour and the acceptance of values.' It says that much of the best practice it has seen in schools has focused instead onchallenging and promoting a 'critical democracy'...
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article1768847.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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