The Education Charter was drafted in 2008 by a range of organisations who felt they shared many values and ideas about education, but lacked a platform for common action. The Charter now has more than 1500 signatories. Many organisations have also signed up, including voluntary sector organisations, schools, teachers unions, student organisations and many others.

As we prepare to take the campaign to a wider group of stakeholders (including parents, young people, business, local authorities and the wider public), all the partner organisations involved in developing the charter recognised the need to develop a simple and easily recognisable term to relate to the type of education we mean.

The term we have come up with is ‘Whole Education’.

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Whole Education Campaign

The RSA and its partner organisations will be conducting a national campaign around Whole Education in late 2009 and early 2010, based on the initial values set out in the Charter. The campaign will promote Whole Education and encourage all different types of stakeholders to engage with what Whole Education might mean to them.

We are currently gathering examples of practices relating to Whole Education. In conjunction with this we are collating stories of young people benefiting - or not benefitting - from Whole Education practices, as well as evidence of the impact of such practices.

We aim to engage practitioners, parents, young people and communities across the country with their views, ultimately to help practitioners to identify and spread effective practices which embodies the values and ideas around Whole Education.

The aim of the campaign is to create an active, networked movement of people who share the values of Whole Education. We hope that the campaign will help more schools, colleges, youth initiatives, teachers, youth workers, parents and students to get behind creative initiatives and innovative practice. By linking together much of the exciting work being done in schools and elsewhere, we hope to provide much wider access and support to those who want it.

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