Active Citizenship at Old Yarranlea State School

Active Learning for Active Citizenship: An Overview

The project Active LearTling for Active Citktnship formed part of recent civil renewal policy and contributed to the development of ideas along with action on the ground. Whilst that practice will be explored in other chapters, this chapter will examine the underlying principles. It is written by the author of the original report submitted to the Home Office in 2004, who subsequently helped ini...

Active learning for active citizenship: The policy context

In this paper the UK civil servant directly responsible for managing the action research programme Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC), sets out in brief the policy context within which the programme developed. He explains how concepts of active citizenship and community development were brought together in the early 21st century by the British Government, in a programme of 'civil ren...

A 7-year-old boy experiencing difficulty at school.

Self-care at school: perceptions of 6-year-old children.

Occupational therapists who work with young children routinely evaluate self-care and consider it an important domain of practice. Little is known about what children perceive is important self-care or what they experience as self-care within a school context. Without knowledge about children's perspectives of self-care, occupational therapists cannot know whether or not they are targeting area...

Old(er) care home residents and sexual/intimate citizenship

Sexuality and intimacy in care homes for older people are overshadowed by concern with prolonging physical and/or psychological autonomy. When sexuality and intimacy have been addressed in scholarship, this can reflect a sexological focus concerned with how to continue sexual activity with reduced capacity. We review the (Anglophone) academic and practitioner literatures bearing on sexuality an...