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This paper focuses on ideological manifestations in Yorkshire school novels by Jack Sheffield, analyses his unique characters, dramatic plots, and impressive expressions, and discovers his belief that globalization and regionalism can coexist―blended, reconciled, and integrated in a village life. Although the pastoral and idyllic scenes of good, old days of England in his Teacher series (2004- ) may well seem quite conservative and even patriotic, the views and prospects proposed by Sheffield are in fact pretty liberal, progressive, and enlightening. This author and ex-teacher features the functions and potentials of a school in realizing a new, balanced world order of rising generations. He particularly lays emphasis on the importance of teachers as individuals that can grow a sense of proportion in children’s mind. Presenting various types of enemies or “the other” in the ages of Falklands War, Vietnam War, World War II, and Irish Conflicts, Sheffield invites the reader to delve into the political, historical, and psychological obstacles to conquer in the contemporary world. This realistic experience to be gained in fiction proves the practical value of literature which can serve as an illuminating, powerful, and highly effective form of citizenship education especially required in the present times of Brexit from the EU.