Bbc News Today - Push To Ensure Pupils Are 'Politically Literate'

[Roobaba]

BBC News Today - Push to ensure pupils are 'politically literate'

Politics a 'big mystery' to young people?

Interesting..
"The pupils here all say that one of the biggest things they've learned is how to spot when a news story might be fake."

Always good to have the 'world knowledge' to help spot fake news and government disinformation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55862548

[Theland]

Young people should be educated in current affairs, including politics,.

[margarettom]

I would like to think the political teaching was unbiased though.

[woofgang]

I think that is where schools fail now....there is too much emphasis on exam passing and "subjects" and not enough emphasis on teaching kids to learn and think. I don't think that subjects like "political literacy" "citizenship" and so on should be separate courses but should permeate the whole syllabus. When I was at school during the last ice age, money management was a part of maths and home economy and moral and political education and current affairs were a part of subjects like history, geography and english lit.

[Karolina82]

There used to be an O-level called "Economics and Public Affairs.

[jourdain2]

There always has been space in the curriculum for things like this to be slotted in.
At the moment, however, it is far more important to ensure that they are all literate and numerate. There are always 11/12 yr. olds who move to secondary school with reading ages of 7 and 8 upwards, few are above their chronological age and friends tell me that the September intake was weighted heavily towards 3 or more years below R.A..