This text supports student teachers, NQTs and practitioners in implementing the Citizenship Order in secondary schools - to be introduced in September 2002. With a practical, clear focus, the authors provide: an intellectual challenge; argument and evidence to help the reader come to an informed view on the complex and controversial issues in each chapter; well-focused examples; and strategies for use in the classroom.

Have you ever envisioned living life as the opposite sex? In that life, what would you do differently from what we observe and live with on a daily basis? What would you change if you were in that body? Family or no family? What would you do for recreation? Would you enjoy sports? Your love life, working habits and especially sexual attitudes would most likely change dramatically. Would you be more or less controlling? What kind of a leader would you be? As a female, if you became a male, would you be much more active sexually? Would you have many sexual partners or few? How would you live...