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Promoting Fundamental British Values as a Pedagogy of Differences

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This chapter draws upon empirical data of teachers promoting fundamental British Values in England to illustrate open pedagogies of difference. The chapter begins introducing the policy framework of British Values and the empirical project. It then considers different discourses and fantasies related to British Values, and how these fantasies can influence teachers’ pedagogies. The chapter presents pedagogies of difference as alternative to approach the controversial topic of British Values in class.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See, Baldini, Bressanelli and Gianfreda (2020).

  2. 2.

    See, for instance, Elton-Chalcraft et al. (2016).

  3. 3.

    See, for instance, Farrell (2016).

  4. 4.

    Three of the four terrorists were born in the UK. The fourth one, emigrated to Britain when he was five years old.

  5. 5.

    Maylor (2016) provides a good account of this.

  6. 6.

    See, Osler (2009) and Arthur (2015).

  7. 7.

    For a discussion, see Arthur (2015).

  8. 8.

    Secondary schools in England are also expected to teach citizenship education, but the subject is taught differently in different schools. For a discussion on this, see Sant and Menendez Alvarez-Hevia (2019).

  9. 9.

    For a discussion on the differences between political and cultural values, see Arthur (2015).

  10. 10.

    For a discussion on the racialisation of FBV, see Lander (2016), Elton-Chalcraft et al. (2016) and Jerome, Elwickb and Kazim (2019).

  11. 11.

    See, for instance, Smith (2000).

  12. 12.

    For a discussion about this, see Maylor (2016).

  13. 13.

    See Peterson (2011) for a deeper discussion around cognitive/affective domains.

  14. 14.

    For this, see the numerous work of Biesta on the problems of qualification (e.g. Biesta 2009, 2015).

  15. 15.

    See, for instance, Bamber et al. (2018).

  16. 16.

    This is very similar to the work on controversial issues which has highly influenced political education pedagogy worldwide.

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Sant, E. (2021). Promoting Fundamental British Values as a Pedagogy of Differences. In: Political Education in Times of Populism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76299-5_8

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