The philosophy of Smart Citizenship is for young people to expand their knowledge of Money, Health, Law, Europe and School/Community Links through the active participation in a Citizenship training event.
The philosophy of Young Scot Smart Citizenship is for young people to expand their knowledge of Money, Health, Law, Europe and School/Community Links through the active participation in a Citizenship training event. The training event should be organised by young people and make good use of information and communications technology (ICT). The organisation, planning, delivery and evaluation of the training event could take a number of formats and the decisions surrounding this are left to individual schools. Schools must, however, follow the five key principles of the Smart Citizenship programme within the organisational process that is listed below.
The process and principles of Smart Citizenship:
The results of the evaluation are then fed back into future Smart Citizenship events.
Many schools will be restricted in the amount of time that they can spend on Smart Citizenship due to the complexities of the secondary school day, an over crowded curriculum and over exposure to other local / national initiatives. However, schools are encouraged to think ‘out of the box’ to deliver the Smart Citizenship experience in an innovative and technological manner. The aim of Smart Citizenship is to provide ‘maximum impact with minimum disruption’.