Tag: Michalis Kakos

The deficit model of education views citizenship teaching as an imposition rather than a right

Citizenship has been taught in British schools for over a decade. Dr Michalis Kakos suggests that citizenship education has the potential to help individuals exercise their democratic rights, but that that the flawed, ‘deficit model’ approach to citizenship teaching used to date has led to a failure to fully realise this ambition. Thom Brooks recently […]