Citizenship in focus
4 total works
Media Matters is an entirely new text in the magazine-style format Citizenship in Focus series. It is designed to help students analyse the media’s influence and power in society, and the role it plays in a democracy.
The topics covered in Media Matters include:
• The power of the media
• Broadcast media in the UK
• Print media in the UK
• Who owns the media?
• Who decides the news agenda?
• Politicians, public relations and the media
• What makes a story newsworthy?
• News reports: true, fair and accurate?
• Freedom and censorship
• A responsible press?
• TV, films and videos – a good or bad influence?
• The power of advertising
• The growth of the internet
• Problems with the internet
• The digital revolution
• Informing the world – who sets the global agenda?
• Index and Glossary
Evaluation Pack
by Simon Foster, Keith West, John Foster, and Chris Culshaw
Edited by John Foster, best-selling author of Your Life, this flexible new series provides a simple and affordable way to cover the essentials of Citizenship and PSHE at 11-14. The Evaluation Pack offers excellent value for money, providing all three pupil books at half-price.
Citizenship Skills covers essential concepts and skills required by the new Statutory Orders for Citizenship at Key Stage 3 (11-14). The book combines key information with practical activities to develop skills of communication, participation and action.
Keeping Healthy covers essential concepts and skills required by the National Guidelines for Health Education. Covering issues as diverse and sensitive as drugs, eating and exercise, personal safety and personal hygiene, it offers practical advice on how to develop a healthier, safer lifestyle.
Personal and Social Skills covers essential concepts and skills required by the National Guidelines for PSHE and features advice and activities designed to help students understand themselves and develop good relationships with others.
Essentials Resource Pack provides ready-to-run photocopiable activities to support every unit in the students books, and is invaluable to the non-specialist teacher.
With Citizenship Education having a key place within the revised curriculum, this new series offers a time-saving way to update or expand provision for this vital subject.
Presented in a stimulating, full-colour magazine format, these new resources provide a ready-made solution for Citizenship Education at 14-16.
Democracy in Action presents students with a clear and balanced picture of how the United Kingdom is governed at local, regional, national and European levels.
The Citizen and the Law provides accessible, up-to-date information on Britain’s laws and on how the courts, police and prison services operate.
Human Rights encourages students to engage with issues ranging from political freedom and economic injustice to the rights of the disabled.
The new Global Concerns student’s book adds a crucial new global dimension to the series, helping to prepare students for life in a rapidly changing, increasingly globalised society.
A new edition of the Teacher’s Resources , including support for Global Issues and containing 40 copymasters and detailed notes on how the whole series can help you to deliver the new national curriculum will replace the existing edition in May 2000.
