Politics and Society aims to develop the learner’s capacity to engage in reflective and active citizenship, informed by the insights and skills of social and political sciences. The changing local, national and global environment presents many challenges and opportunities for young people. It also requires of them a range of skills, knowledge, values and attitudes so that they can achieve their goals in this environment.
These include:
- skills in critically assessing information and its sources and in gathering and processing information
- intercultural skills to enable them to communicate and work with people from diverse backgrounds in employment and in other settings
- an understanding of the processes of globalisation and individualisation and their opportunities and challenges
- the imagination to think creatively and to propose new and alternative futures
- a willingness to play an active role in their society
- a disposition towards taking responsibility for the outcomes of their actions.