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Post-16 Community Cohesion and Preventing Violent Extremism Resources

Citizenship and community cohesion

This Quick Guide focuses on the contribution of citizenship to community cohesion and the Government initiatives surrounding it. It looks at the contribution citizenship can make to community cohesion and how it can be promoted by organisations.

This is one in a series of twelve Quick Guides highlighting 14 - 19 opportunities for citizenship.

Citizenship and community cohesion

Moving forward together: citizenship learning for community cohesion

Many recent commentators agree that young people need the opportunity to discuss the issues relating to integration and cohesion. Both the report of the Commission for Integration and Cohesion, and Sir Keith Ajegbo's Curriculum Review of Diversity and Citizenship, stress the importance of citizenship education for future national stability. There is also a new duty on schools to promote community cohesion. The wider post-16 sector should also provide similar opportunities for its young people. This pack of materials aims to help you explore community cohesion with your learners in a citizenship context. You can also download the poster for Activity 2 here and the teaching and learning activities in this pack are also available as amendable Word documents below so that you can adapt them for your own sessions:

1. A sense of community

2. Images of my community

3. What is 'community cohesion'?

4. The facts, opinions and the role of the media

5. Faith Schools

6. The impact of unequal life chances

7. What might work?

8. What can we do?

When using amendable versions of this resource please ensure it is credited appropriately

Moving forward together: citizenship learning for community cohesion

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 5 Diversity and community cohesion

This four-page publication, one in a series of six signposting key resources available from the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme, introduces diversity and community cohesion in citizenship and looks at the new duty on schools, and encouragement for colleges, to promote community cohesion and explore shared values. The publication presents the key resources available to assist staff in promoting diversity and community cohesion. It also includes a sample staff development activity which encourages staff to explore the notion of community and to think about how the same activity might be used with their learners.

Citizenship staff development quick steps: 5 Diversity and community cohesion