Morality and Citizenship in Education

John Beck lectures in the Sociology of Education and Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. He was previously Head of Education Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge where he is still a Fellow. He has published widely in a range of highly reputable academic journals in the fields of Education Theory, the Sociology of Education, and Curriculum Studies.

• Part 1 Tradition and change - is Britain in cultural and moral decline?: a nation in decline? - the limits of Conservative cultural pessimism; millennial moralism, tradition and modernity. Part 2 Curriculum implications - moral and civic education for 21st century citizens: "spiritual and moral development" and religious education; moral education and civic education; citizenship education - problems and possibilities; enterprise culture and the new managerialism - institutional and curricular implications.