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Schools need to decide which opportunities to develop as explicit citizenship provision. This unit can be delivered through citizenship or history. History is identified in this typeface.
Pupils learn about the key characteristics of government and the electoral system in Britain. They explore
the principles of different electoral systems, and ideas about voting. They consider the consequences of disenfranchisement for excluded groups and for society as a whole. Pupils discuss and evaluate how effective democracy is in Britain today. They work in groups to prepare for, and take part in, a debate on a topical issue in front of a particular audience. They monitor and assess their own learning.
In this unit, pupils learn about the struggle women, and their male supporters, faced in order to achieve universal female suffrage. This is put within the context of the struggle for full male suffrage, and of contemporary ideas about power, voting and the roles of men and women. Pupils will learn that granting the vote to women was, in part, a reflection of changes in society, including changes in beliefs about women's status and role.
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