Citizens All? Children's Rights and Citizenship Education was launched in April 2005 by Lord David Puttnam, President of UNICEF UK (second from right); John Lloyd, Citizenship Advisor, DfES; David Kerr, Principal Research Officer for the National Foundation for Education Research and Ian Massey, Intercultural Inspector, Hampshire.
© UNICEF UKFrom 1999 until 2004, UNICEF UK Education monitored the way citizenship education developed in schools.
The research
UNICEF’s particular interest was to what degree schools included teaching about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the curriculum, and how far pupils were participating in decision-making within the school.
You can download all six research reports. Please scroll down the page.
Citizens All? Children's Rights and Citizenship Education, the report on the final national survey from the CEMP project (Citizenship Education Monitoring Project), undertaken by Dr. Aileen McKenzie for UNICEF UK, celebrated the degree to which the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child had entered teaching in schools across the UK. Over 50% of respondees said they were
teaching about children's rights as part of
Citizenship or PSHE.
Download the research reports and speeches made at the launch of the final report...
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"Everyone is part of the school and gets to say their own ideas."
Pupil at Devon primary school
"There is a School Council (started this year) which runs every Wednesday. A Sixth Former chairs and listens to everyone."
Pupil at mid-Wales secondary school
"We worked in pairs and had to decide what was important by whittling our cards down. Some had put money but in our pair we agreed shelter, nutritious food, protection from neglect and something to do with race."
Pupil at West of Scotland primary school
"I've learnt things by experience and through the TV and other people."
Pupil at Nottinghamshire secondary school
(Quotes from ‘Work in Progress II: Education for Citizenship in Four Nations’, Autumn 2002)
Citizenship in Schools reports on a baseline survey of Citizenship education, before the introduction of the Citizenship curriculum. UNICEF commissioned the survey in 1999 to provide indicators of where and how Citizenship education was likely to be approached by schools.
Citizenship in 400 Schools reports on the findings of a baseline survey of curriculum and practice amongst 400 UK primary, middle and secondary schools commissioned by UNICEF in the summer of 2000.
Work in Progress II is a collection of follow-up interviews with teachers and pupils in schools in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales carried out in autumn 2001. The report returns to the work of 14 schools surveyed in ‘Work in Progress I’.
