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Pike, Mark A. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
The Academies Programme in England, whereby new schools may be privately sponsored and managed but publicly funded, has expanded rapidly with over 200 academies already open before 2010 and many more likely given the education policies promoted by Michael Gove as Conservative Secretary of State for Education. A significant number of academies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Values, School Administration
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Pike, Mark A. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2008
The recently introduced and compulsory citizenship education in English schools seeks to prepare children for life in a liberal democracy and is concerned with far more than the acquisition of skills and knowledge; it privileges particular forms of action, behaviour and ways of thinking. I argue here that education for democratic citizenship (EDC)…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values