Project details: POLIS (Politics on-line learning and citizenship skills)
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Description
In recent years, a considerable amount of attention has been given to citizenship education in schools and colleges. Until now, however, this has not been the case in higher education.
Last year, the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Keele University and Liverpool John Moores University, successfully bid for resources from the Higher Education Funding Council’s Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning, to pursue the citizenship agenda at university level. The amount involved is £250000, is spread over three years. The director of the project, currently known by the acronym POLiS, is Graham Smith from Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences and the manager, Roger Ottewill, from the Centre for Learning and Teaching in the School of Education.
The POLiS project team will seek to stimulate citizenship education at university level by developing a series of on-line learning activities which can be incorporated into existing curricula for students of politics and cognate disciplines. In so doing, it will draw upon expertise in the fields of learning design/technology, political science, information literacy and personal development/career planning. The first set of activities will focus on the nature of citizenship, representation and social inclusion/exclusion.
For further information please contact the project manager by email at the following address: rmo2@soton.ac.uk
