Passport
A framework for personal and social development
Jane Lees and Sue Plant
2000
£5.00 + p&p, 64 pp
ISBN 978 0 903319 95 9
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PASSPORT offers teachers a comprehensive and systematic framework for implementing a curriculum for personal and social development which is easy to use, and which enables teachers to integrate a wide range of initiatives into a coherent programme. It draws together the common elements of the national initiatives that promote education concerning different aspects of pupils’ personal and social development: health, citizenship, sex and relationships, drugs, parenthood, financial capability, safety, sustainability, work and careers. It also identifies the common core of skills, knowledge and understanding, and attitudes and values which constitute the pupils’ basic entitlement to personal and social development.
PASSPORT is the outcome of the PASSPORT project, commissioned in 1997 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with support from the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in order to raise the profile, status and quality of PSE in schools.
‘It is one of the very best educational documents of the last ten years or more: deeply important, clearly analysed, whole-school related, both philosophically deep and practically implementable, and so lucid!’ Michael Marland CBE
Jane Lees and Sue Plant have many years experience between them in personal and social development in schools. They have been involved in teaching, curriculum development, advising, writing, inspecting and training, and have worked with teachers from schools across all phases. They are national leaders in this field: they have both served as Chair of NSCoPSE, the national PSE association. Jane is Vice-chair of the National Advisory Group for PSHE and Sue is Chair of the Sex Education Forum. They now work as independent consultants.