The Deliberative Classroom: Democracy, protest and change

The Deliberative Classroom resource packs are designed to support teachers to think about the subject knowledge base and concepts that underpin and inform debates about fundamental British values. They accompany student resources, which are designed for use with key stage 3 pupils.
This briefing is written for teachers, and therefore assumes the readership has a postgraduate level of literacy, although we do not assume readers are already subject experts in this area. The briefing is designed to sketch out some of the issues from the relevant
area of academic study and to help teachers to think about what constitutes the knowledge base for these debates. We anticipate teachers will select aspects that are relevant to their students, and this will depend on age, prior knowledge and the time available to explore these issues.