David Cameron and Theresa May visit a high school in Luton to discuss the government's Counter Extremism Strategy. Flickr/Number 10/Georgina Coupe. Some rights reserved.As part of openDemocracy’s coverage of November’s World Forum for Democracy, we took part in Skills for democracy, an open forum in the House of Commons hosted by Titus Alexander of Democracy Matters and Lord Blunkett of Brightside. To find out more about the state of citizenship education in the UK, we spoke to David Kerr, Head of Initial Teacher Training at the University of Reading and Director of Education for the Citizenship Foundation.
Billy Sawyers: What have been the main challenges for you in training teachers about citizenship in a way that can then be taught in schools?
