Intercultural Citizenship UK Policy Resources
Two UK sources — a government-commissioned curriculum review and a cross-party House of Lords committee — set out the gap intercultural citizenship education is meant to close, read below.
“Issues of identity and diversity are more often than not neglected in Citizenship education.”
Diversity and Citizenship Curriculum Review (the Ajegbo Report) · Department for Education and Skills · 2007 · Key findings, Citizenship.
The government-commissioned review found that the very questions intercultural citizenship addresses — identity, belonging and living together — were too often left out of citizenship teaching. It led to a new programme-of-study strand, “Identity and Diversity: Living together in the UK.”
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“Integration within and between different communities is a central topic of our inquiry.”
The Ties that Bind: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century · House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement · HL Paper 118 · 2018 · Chapter 1.
The cross-party committee placed integration across and within communities at the centre of its inquiry into 21st-century citizenship, framing a shared sense of belonging as one of the defining and most pressing challenges of our time — the gap that intercultural citizenship education sets out to close.
Verified · UK Parliament
Further policy research
RESEARCH PROGRAMME
Cohesive Societies
The British Academy
The national academy’s programme on how societies stay cohesive amid rapid change — debate, publications and policy reviews on social cohesion, belonging and living together.
social cohesion
policy
RESEARCH GAP EVIDENCE
The Value of Intercultural Skills
British Council (with Ipsos & Booz Allen Hamilton)
Global research finding employers value intercultural skills highly — yet most say education does not sufficiently develop them, evidencing a clear skills gap.
intercultural skills
employers
Call to action
Make Languages a Priority in H.E
HEPI Report: The Language Crisis: Arresting the Decline
Institutions should look for ways to strengthen language provision, including more joint provision with other departments or with language specialists at other institutions
languages