Introduction to fundamental British values

Abstract

The introduction to this special issue outlines the current context related to the imperative within the Teachers' Standards (2012) in England 'not to undermine findamental British values' (FBV). The introduction problematises the imposition of this standard in terms of teacher identity and the invasion of professional and pedagogic spaces by the securitisation agenda. The introduction also highlights the contributions of each paper in this special issue to the academic debate on the teaching of fundamental British values in schools and within teacher education.

Keywords:

• Fundamental British values
• Britishness
• Muslim

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the authors who contributed articles for this special issue and who worked to very tight timescales to submit and revise their work as the debate on fundamental British values moved at a rapid pace from 2012 until the present time. I would like to thank my co-editors Sally Elton-Chalcraft and Lynn Revell for their support and hard work in helping me to compile this special issue.