Gender Issues

Current Issues

Series of books on contemporary social issues for 14- to 18-year-olds (U.K.; Independence Educational Publishers, 2007-23)

Using The Pulitzer Center Issues, students research a global issue and interpret this problem through a tempera painting inspired by Pablo Picasso's Guernica (USA 2020).

Series of books on contemporary social issues for 14- to 18-year-olds (U.K.; Independence Educational Publishers, 2007-20)

Students are introduced to the concepts of liberal and conservative and the association of these with the Democrats and Republicans (USA: Econed 2020).

These lessons tackle trade issues: the global market, sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, and the EU, NAFTA, WTO (USA: Foundation for Teaching Economics 2020)

Teachers often avoid “hot-button” topics because the issues are so complex, or because they don’t feel prepared to handle the strong feelings and opinions discussion might stir, the TeachableMoment.org project offers 10 suggestions for how to take some of these issues on in constructive, thoughtful and sensitive ways (New York Times Learning Network ...

This Training Pack is a professional development programme of the Council of Europe which is designed to support and promote the teaching of controversial issues in schools (2015-20).

Numerous lesson plans put students in the role of decision makers at critical moments in history (USA: Brown University 2018).