Alerted to this via an RGS-IBG newsletter.A new website which explores issues of identity, diversity and citizenship. Familiar themes to Pilot GCSE Geographers !!
Who do we think we are? (WDWTWA)
Is a new, DCSF-funded education project designed to engage primary and secondary school teachers in the exploration of identity, diversity and citizenship with their pupils - in their schools, local communities and nationally. The project is a direct response to the recent Curriculum Review on Diversity and Citizenship, undertaken by Sir Keith Ajegbo, which recommended that all schools participate in a high profile, national event - titled Who do we think we are? Week - where the main activities would be
A new consortium of partners has been set up to help support the delivery of Who do we think we are? week - led by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), the Historical Association and citizenship consultant Paula Kitching.
- School and community
- Relationships, belonging and faith
- History and settlement
- 'Britishness’, national identity/values and the 2012 Games
- The creation of an online database and ‘Ideas Hub’ – signposting existing resources and support for the learning and teaching of identity, diversity and community
- Curriculum Development Programmes to support targeted work with schools and young people in four local authorities: Barking & Dagenham, Bradford,
- The development and promotion of the national, week-long WDWTWA activities programme (23rd-28th June 2008) - during which schools will be encouraged to collapse timetables and explore identity and diversity as cross-curricular concepts - through subject 'join up', extensive on-site enrichment activities and off-site visits to museums, archives and community-based projects, etc.
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