Beschreibung:
This book investigates how schools have been defined by the state-mandated requirement on teachers to promote 'fundamental British values'- an attempt to forge a British identity among young citizens within a multiracial, multicultural and multilingual society.
Foreword Introduction to Fundamental British Values 1. 'Why all of a sudden do we need to teach fundamental British values?' A critical investigation of religious education student teacher positioning within a policy discourse of discipline and control 2. Britishness as racist nativism: a case of the unnamed 'other' 3. 'I'd worry about how to teach it': British values in English classrooms 4. Towards an overlapping consensus: Muslim teachers' views on fundamental British values 5. Calibrating fundamental British values: how head teachers are approaching appraisal in the light of the Teachers' Standards 2012, Prevent and the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015 6. A place for fundamental (British) values in teacher education in Northern Ireland?