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Smith introduces the origins of citizenship education (CE) in the UK and how concerns in the other home nations regarding young peoples’ engagement with politics, community, and concepts of citizenship were interpreted through additional concerns over cultural and national identity in Wales. This, and the advent of devolution in Wales, eventually led to the development of a number of curricular interventions, including Personal and Social Education (PSE), school-level mandates for strategies addressing Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC), and, perhaps the most distinctive policy accompanying the national curriculum for Wales, the Curriculum Cymreig.
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Smith, K. (2016). Citizenship Education in the UK. In: Curriculum, Culture and Citizenship Education in Wales. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54443-8_1
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