Furthermore, only one per cent of teachers feel prepared to teach politics, despite six in 10 feeling responsible for developing their students’ political literacy skills.
Tied to this, less than a fifth of teachers said they felt “very confident” when teaching sensitive or controversial issues and a majority said their CPD and teacher training offered no preparation for teaching political literacy.
The research is based on a survey of 3,300 secondary school teachers and has been published in a new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Political Literacy (Weinberg, 2021).
The report comes at a time when politics dominants many areas of our lives – from Brexit to climate change. And yet, as the report points out, we are seeing declining voting rates among young people in many Western democracies.
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