I was told to teach it by the teacher’. In England one tutor noted that she had not experienced learning about controversial issues while at school and added an interesting point: ‘No, not really… antismoking and drugs, but a one way, single line that it was bad… it was taught as facts rather than values’. She also commented that in 10 years of supervision of teaching practice she had seen no more than five lessons in which students tried to tackle controversial issues with their classes.