This page gives you hand-picked links to the websites of non-affiliated organisations – sorted by category – whose work with values and learning is considered relevant to the ViTaL vision. (The ViTaL Hub is unable though to take responsibility for verifying or updating the information available through these links.)
Citizenship Education
ASSOCIATION FOR CITIZENSHIP TEACHING
Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) is the professional subject association for those involved in citizenship education. This resource offers: some news summaries; details of training programme; a diary; a members' only discussion board; a number of categorised (by school phase) summaries of case studies; a small number of teaching resources; a list of categorised links (some annotated) to other websites.
www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/
CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION
The Citizenship Foundation describes itself as "an independent charity working to promote more effective citizenship through education about the law, democracy and society." It was founded in 1989. The website offers: some teaching support materials (mostly own publications); a substantial number of categorised summaries of case study materials; details of its own training programmes; and a section called 'active learning'. This latter section is about legal oriented presentations/debates available to schools in certain parts of the country.
www.citfou.org.uk/
EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP IN SCOTLAND
A resource of Learning and Teaching Scotland, this website provides material supporting the implementation of the policy paper 'Education for Citizenship in Scotland'. The website has: the paper itself in downloadable form; a number of categorised case studies (some downloadable); a significant selection of materials to assist evaluation of provision including a number of subject specific teacher contributions (again as downloadable documents) and questionnaires; annotated links to other websites; and an archive of relevant reports and documents.
www.ltscotland.com/citizenship/
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
The NFER is an independent educational research institution in the UK. The foundation is engaged with a large number (up to 100 at any one time) research projects. This resource contains: information about the organisation itself; a searchable database of its publications and projects; links to specialist information services including EURYDICE (the information network on education in Europe), EMIE (information services for local authority education support staff) and the NFER library.
www.nfer.ac.uk/
NEWSWISE
NEWSWISE is intended for teachers to improve pupil's literacy, encourage thoughtful discussion and promote citizenship. It uses a topical story from the previous month's British national press coverage. Related to the story are activities to do and issues to consider. There is a Junior and a Senior version of Newswise for different ages and abilities. Primary schools can use it in the literacy hour. Secondary schools and colleges can use it in English, general studies and philosophy from year 7 up to 'A' level. A discussion forum for each story has recently been added to the resource.
www.dialogueworks.co.uk/newswise
OFSTED - Office for Standards in Education
The OFSTED website has a number of publications concerning standards and inspection relevant to Citizenship Education. The best way to find these is to use the search box with the keyword 'citizen' or 'citizenship'.
www.ofsted.gov.uk/
THE COMPLETE CURRENT NATIONAL CURRICULUM FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
This site links every National Curriculum programme of study requirement (across 13 subjects) to high-quality, relevant teaching resources available on the internet. These resources are organised by subject, programme of study and key stage and by themes: ICT; citizenship and PHSEopportunities; Key skills; Inclusion.
www.nc.uk.net/
THE STANDARDS SITE - CITIZENSHIP
The Standards and Effectiveness Unit of the Department for Education and Skills have their own website 'Standards Site'. The SEU "was established to implement the Government's policies for raising standards of education in schools in England". The website contains information on a wide range of policy ventures together with schemes of work for 14 subjects and major aspects of the curriculum. The schemes of work include a Teachers' Guide and Exemplar Units and are downloadable Microsoft Word documents (allowing users to 'cut and paste' relevant sections).
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes/
comparative education
EDUCATION - ARTICLE IN CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA 1907-1912
A general article entitled "Education" from the Catholic Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia is a source document representing early-20th century Catholic educational views (this 15 vols. 1907-1912 edition, chosen because later editions are under copyright) is being put online integrally at the New Advent Catholic Supersite by Kevin Knight). The article represents Catholic views on education during this period. The encyclopedia is not currently searchable.
www.knight.org/advent/cathen/05295b.htm
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Journal of Philosophy of Education publishes articles representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. The contents index has access to abstracts of articles.
www.blackwellpublishing.com/
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Home page of the Center for Educational Research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. "The specific concern of the Center for Educational Research is to investigate development and learning from the perspective of institutionalized education. In three research areas it is studied how aspects of schooling affect learning within and across subject domains, impact on the intra- and interindividual differentiation of personality traits, and guide career-forming processes". The site describes the work of the Center with descriptions of the current research programme and individual projects, including lists of publications. There are also links to information on TIMSS, the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, which continues the series of international comparative school achievement studies carried out by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). A descriptive summary of the report is provided which presents findings for the Federal Republic of Germany in international comparison. The report is available in html and postscript formats.
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/forschung/eub/index.htm
THE CENTER FOR WORLD INDIGENOUS STUDIES
A massive bibliography of all kinds of information and resources concerning Indigenous Cultures from every continent. This resource is managed by the Center For World Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University's Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library and the Nunavut Implementation Commission's Circumpolar and Aboriginal North American WWW Virtual Library. The Fourth World Documentation Project Archives are browseable. The Archives contain educational policy documents and position papers. Parts of this resource, such as the Archive search facility) are not fully operational.
www.cwis.org/
THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
The Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) is part of the OECD. It promotes research and innovations in education and carries out some research studies of its own. Summaries of its research programmes and publications are included, as is the full text of "Education at a Glance - OECD Indicators" and "Education at a Glance - Analysis". The indicators aim to be the consensus of professional thinking on the comparative measurement of international educational performance. The Analysis addresses selected themes or importance to governments and presents implications for educational policy.
www.oecd.org/cer/
THE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR LEADERSHIP IN LEARNING
The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning (IEJLL) is produced at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. It is a refereed electronic journal, which began in 1997, and is intended for a broad audience of persons interested in leadership in learning. It began in 1997. The journal archives contain articles such as: Official Perspectives of Some Australian Fundamentalist Schools, 2(5); Spirituality and the Principalship: Leadership for the New Millennium, 3(11); Emotional Intelligence and Student Behaviour, 1(2). The IEJLL, together with the Change Agency Listserver make up the Change Agency Network.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/
VALUES AND AIMS IN CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKS
'Values and Aims in Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks' is a complementary document of the SCAA/NFER INCA project. The document describes the different national approaches and practices in relation to values and aims of 16 countries. INCA ON THE WEB has been produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to assist the comparison of education systems in other countries. INCA currently includes national descriptions (country Archives) of 16 countries, based on information collected between January and December 1997. It forms part of an ongoing project and, as such, is subject to continual amendment and updating. The archive contains comparative data on 'Context and principles of Education', 'Education Systems', 'Education Structures', 'Internal School Organisation', 'Curricula' and 'Assessment arrangements'. This document is accessible from the bottom of the menu bar at the right hand side.
www.inca.org.uk/
WORLD DATA ON EDUCATION 1995 - 1998
The World Data on Education is produced by the International Bureau of Education. It is a databank consisting of full profiles of the education system of almost every country. The profiles are the reports on developments in education presented by Member States to the annual International Conference on Education. They are in English, French or Spanish. The databank is searchable by country and keywords in English. Full text searching is possible in all three languages.
www.ibe.unesco.org/countries/wde/worlddatae.htm
contemporary culture critique
CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER
A large www site of bibliographies relating to Cultural Studies as compiled by Sarah Zupko. The resource deals with the subject areas of: Mass Media/Communication, Cyberspace/Sci-Fi, Television, Film, International. There are also sections on Theorists and Critics, Calls for Papers/Conferences, Book Reviews, Academic Programs, Bibliographies/Reading Lists, Publishers, Newsgroups/Listservs, General Links. There is also a general links page which contains a substantial bibliography of links to a range of other resources concerned with cultural studies.
www.popcultures.com/
CULTURE BY COMMOTION
This resource consists of a planned trilogy of electronic books, Plenitude, Transformation, Commotion. Plenitude version 2.0 is fully available. This book is an attempt to interactively explore "the new numerous and diverse "species" of social life and to contemplate our failure to take account of them." The book has hypertext links within (Index, Table of Contents and footnotes) and to other Internet sites. There are opportunities to vote and comment on sections of the book by e-mail.
www.cultureby.com/index.html
CULTURE MACHINE
Culture Machine is a series of new experiments in culture and theory hosted by Teeside University. The aim of Culture Machine is "to seek out and promote the most provocative of new work, and analyses of that work, in culture and theory from British and international authors". An electronic journal, The Culture Machine Journal, is published annually "to promote research into cultural and theoretical questions by contemporary technology such as E-mail, WWW, the Internet, HTML, Java, Javascript, Janet, CD-ROM, DVD, WebTV, PCs, Word Processors".
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/
LEADERSHIP U - RESOURCEBASE AND ONLINE JOURNAL
Leadership U is the online journal and resource base of the Leadership University is part of the "Telling the Truth Project" of Christian Leadership Ministries which is the Faculty Ministry Of Campus Crusade For Christ, International. This Christian apologetics resource of over 5,000 papers, is organised in 24 subjects including Theology, Education, Life Sciences, Philosophy, Culture. There are keyword and fulltext search facilities. The user should note that the provider of this resource states its purpose "to accelerate the worldwide spread of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through higher education."
www.leaderu.com/
PROJECT MUSE
A www site for the Project Muse. Muse is an archive and search facility of 45 journals published by John Hopkins University Press. Journals in this project include Journal of the History of Ideas; Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal; Modernism/Modernity; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; The Review of Higher Education, Modern Judaism, Postmodern Culture. Institutional registration to the www site is required.
http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
This www site contains many articles which aim to offer a critique of contemporary culture from a Christian perspective. There are sections on film, TV, Music and Literature. There is an archive of articles.
www.shootthemessenger.com.au/home/h_index.html
SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY
The Society for Philosophy and Technology's quarterly electronic journal is published by the Scholarly Communications Project of Virginia Tech University. This quarterly electronic journal is available as both PDF and HTML documents. The database contains full-text of the journal back to the first issue in 1995. The site is fully-searchable for this title and all titles published by the Scholarly Communications Project and includes links to the VT homepage and other Virginia Tech projects. Adobe Acrobat required to view PDF files.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/spt.html
