Teaching about the Troubles lacking in Northern Ireland schools, study finds
The UU paper on Citizenship Education studies how a subject called Local and Global Citizenship is taught in Northern Ireland.
But the UU paper said that what teachers could teach was "too flexible from the outset" and that as a result, "citizenship has been taught in a range of ways across different schools". "The flexibility provided in the curriculum for teachers to decide what to teach has created a 'local' loophole to avoid potentially controversial conflict-related issues, in favour of the safer 'global' landscape."Soldiers running from a bomb in the Smithfield area of Belfast at the height of the Troubles
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