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Film and Citizenship: Visualising the concepts

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Still from the film ‘A Crude Awakening’ depicting a rusting oil barrel in a pool of murky water

The key concepts of the Citizenship curriculum are:

Democracy and justice
Rights and responsibilities
Identities and diversity

These concepts provide the subject matter of a wide repertoire of films suitable for KS3 and KS4 students. By engaging young people with films covering this content, teachers can provide students with visually compelling narratives as a starting point for analysis.

Film encourages students to respond to situations, people and politics in personal ways, where choices, moral decisions and opportunities for action are played out on screen. Film takes students beyond their own experiences and provides opportunities to engage with characters, societies, conflicts and dilemmas that they may not otherwise encounter. An approach to film from a Citizenship perspective offers students rich opportunities to deepen their understanding of how societies function.