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Citizenship and special educational needs: what are you going to do about teaching them to vote?
Author(s) -
Pavey Barbara
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.00281
Subject(s) - citizenship , democracy , citizenship education , pedagogy , learning disability , sociology , psychology , public relations , political science , law , developmental psychology , politics
In the light of current Citizenship initiatives, Barbara Pavey explores post‐16 Citizenship teaching and learning with particular reference to helping young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to use their democratic right to vote. She concludes that these potential voters could be effectively disenfranchised by the lack of attention paid to this area.