Taking note of the current best practices, this document zooms in on five concrete recommendations that would help unleash the potential of football history and football heritage in tackling social exclusion. The document, based also on the Needs Assessment of the project, aims to help policymakers see the current roadblocks for using football history and heritage as a tool within formal and informal education, making concrete suggestions for policy action at several levels of policy making.

Click here for the complete set of Policy and Action Recommendations developed as part of our Football Makes History project.

  • Project Citizen: engaging students in the active exercise of responsible citizenship
  • Helping all student answer challenging questions about the causes of historical events and developments
  • Action Research: projects as active methods to develop civic skills
  • How do we decide what we believe? – Helping students learn how to question beliefs and test claims to become more (self) critical and evidence based in their thinking
  • Augmentative Communication: the creation of visual vocabularies as a support in the study of works of art