Global Citizenship Guides: Teaching Controversial Issues

This guide aims to demonstrate how, by enhancing young people’s ability to handle controversial issues, teachers can support and develop them as global citizens.
This guide explores:

• what controversial issues are
• why controversial issues should be taught
• why some issues are, or can become, controversial
• what guidance exists for handling controversial issues
• classroom strategies for handling and exploring controversial issues
• some practical activities for teaching controversial issues.