Böcker av Ralph Leighton

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden. The book presents case studies from England and Sweden, two contexts that have similar societies and school systems but very different approaches to citizenship education.

As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there.

A guide to citizenship education which challenges teachers to enable pupils to make a difference to themselves and to society. It introduces the central themes of the citizenship curriculum and evaluates the success of a number of delivery methods being used throughout the UK.