Headlines: War and Conflict: Tackling Controversial Issues in the Classroom

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Headlines: War and Conflict is one of a series of books and accompanying CD-ROMs which offer primary school teachers much-needed support for teaching controversial issues. Published in association with the Citizenship Foundation, the Headlines titles provide background knowledge and practical teaching resources to introduce and appropriately manage discussions of sensitive, controversial and topical issues with confidence.

Children of all ages are now regularly exposed to media coverage of controversial topics. When a news story hits the headlines, schools will naturally want to respond to the questions, fears and concerns of their pupils with sensitivity, accuracy and balance. The Headlines titles have been produced specifically to help teachers face this challenge. Features include: topic background knowledge and presentation of opposing arguments and viewpoints; advice on how to avoid bias; lively lesson plans; reproducible pupil resources including activity sheets, information sheets, case studies and news reports.

Each accompanying CD-ROM includes: editable versions of pupil the activity sheets, so they can be adapted in response to topical news stories; additional resource materials and photographs to display on a whiteboard as a focus for discussion; additional background information for teachers.

Author Bio

Marguerite Heath is an experienced primary headteacher, who now directs and writes all lessons plans for the Go-Givers programme at the Citizenship Foundation. Go-Givers is a major resource for teaching and learning about Citizenship in many primary schools.

Expert series consultant, Roy Honeybone, is a Citizenship Education Consultant and Editor of Teaching Citizenship - the journal of the Association for Citizenship Teachers.