POLITICS, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY – PROGRAMME SUBJECT IN PROGRAMMES FOR SPECIALIZATION IN GENERAL STUDIES (POS1-01)

To live in fellowship with others entails the ability to adapt to community norms as well as individuals’ desire for freedom through personal choice. Where the needs of society and individual preferences intersect, the question often arises as to what a society ought to be and how it should be organized in order to safeguard human rights and the welfare of its citizens as well as possible. The programme subject Politics, the individual and society shall generate knowledge, develop skills and foster attitudes related to life and living together with others in a society. It shall stimulate the pupil to think, comprehend and reflect on the interaction between the individual and society.

The programme subject Politics, the individual and society shall aid in developing independent individuals who learn to become better citizens through their encounter with the world at large, other cultures and teaching materials. This task invites the expansion of the individual’s tolerance for multiplicity, based on the notion that social life is not always the same for everyone. The programme subject Politics, the individual and society is an educative subject designed to stimulate involvement and democratic participation through social and value-related issues.

Working with this programme subject shall influence and develop the pupil’s capacity for cooperation, creativity and analytical thinking. The teaching in the programme subject shall provide experience and cognition as a basis for personal growth and social development from a lifelong perspective. The teaching in Politics, the individual and society shall pave the way for the use of varied learning venues and learning strategies. The programme subject shall develop competence that can serve as a basis for participation in vocational life and for further studies.