Identifying A Citizenship Community Action Project
Overview
Every community action project starts in the same messy place: a long list of things that could be worth doing, and no clear way to choose between them. Recycling, road safety, food poverty, library hours, clean water, digital access. All of it feels important, and none of it can be your project until you narrow it down to one issue you can actually research and act on.
This lesson gives you a method for doing exactly that: how to spot a genuine citizenship issue, how to test whether it is a strong choice for a project rather than just a good topic for conversation, and how existing organisations, from a local food bank to Amnesty International, show you the different shapes a citizenship action can take.
Objectives
- Identify an issue, problem or cause of social need that relates to citizenship concepts and themes studied as part of the course
- Understand the range of methods and approaches relevant to citizenship actions that can be used by governments, organisations, groups and individuals to address citizenship themes in society
- Understand methods for carrying out citizenship action: individual, collective, mass and social movements, social action and consumer action
- Understand case studies: campaigning organisations (e.g. Red Cross, Amnesty International), educational projects
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- According to the Edexcel specification, a citizenship community action project must be: A) A spontaneous, unplanned response to a sudden event B) A planned, informed course of action addressing a citizenship issue C) A written essay about a global issue with no practical element D) A project only governments are able to carry out Answer: B
- A small group of residents forms a committee and organises together to petition their council for a new pedestrian crossing. This is best described as an example of: A) Individual action B) Consumer action C) Collective action D) A mass movement Answer: C
- A shopper chooses to buy only fair-trade coffee in order to reward companies that pay farmers fairly. This is an example of: A) Social action B) Consumer action C) Collective action D) Governmental action Answer: B
- Which of the following is the strongest reason to reject 'solve world poverty' as a citizenship community action project issue? A) It does not sound important enough B) It is not specific or local enough for one student to investigate and act on directly C) It has already been fully resolved D) It has no connection to any key theme on the course Answer: B
- Amnesty International is best described, in terms of its main method, as an organisation that primarily: A) Delivers direct emergency humanitarian aid B) Campaigns and applies public pressure on behalf of prisoners and human rights C) Passes national legislation D) Provides microfinance loans to small businesses Answer: B
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