Amsterdam: Citizenship & Learning Skills
[Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 - A Level]
Amsterdam is an ideal place to study a range of citizenship topics, from human rights to sustainability to anti-racism. All of these issues have been important to the Netherlands and they still continue to be so.
Subject Focus:
- KS 3-4: Study interdependency, the defence of human rights, European integration and globalisation.
- KS 3-4: Understand the human side of recent historical events and important issues.
- KS 3-4: Appreciate the necessity for sustainable livelihoods while maintaining a country's identity.
Student Outcomes:
- Learn about the development of international law and the efforts to enforce human rights.
- Understand the effects of racism and prejudice.
- Explore the nature of obligation to others in our own and other societies.
- Appreciate the scale of global warming and the need to search for sustainability.
