Question 13

1. No one subject can teach all the different aspects of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that students need to be able to understand what it means to be an active citizen, and to develop the willingness and skills to be able to work with others to resolve local community problems.
2. This means that active citizenship needs to be one of the central and overreaching goals of education and that curriculum planners need to ensure that the people who write each syllabus incorporate relevant aspects of citizenship. It also means that the different syllabus committees are in regular communication to ensure the co-ordinated and sequenced development of citizenship knowledge, skills and attitudes.
3. This means that teachers of different subjects and grades need to be in regular communication to ensure that the lessons presented to students complement each other to ensure the co-ordinated and sequenced development of citizenship, knowledge, skills and attitudes.