Essays on Citizenship

Citizenship, both the subject and the practice, should be a bridge between the vocational aims of education and education for its own sake. Not all of life is productive: there is leisure, there is culture, both of which active citizens can defend, indeed enhance. This book may, I hope, help teachers and all involved in education (governors, parents and even inspectors) gain or reinforce a sense of civic pride and mission.

Sir Bernard Crick was Emeritus Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Honorary Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was chairman of the advisory group on The Teaching of Citizenship and Democracy in Schools and was presented with the Political Studies Association's Fiftieth Anniversary Award for lifetime achievement in political studies in 2000.

The pre-history of the Citizenship Report 1997; the introduction of politics in schools (1969); on bias (1972); political literacy (with Ian Lister, 1978); basic concepts for political education (1978); citizenship and education (1992); a defence of the Citizenship Order, 1999; towards 2002 - the good and the active citizen; for some special groups - values education, human rights, global citizenship; governors; the presuppositions of citizenship education; the decline of political thinking in British public life; a meditation on democracy, politics and inclusive citizenship.