Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK

Abstract

Digital Citizenship is an emerging field of research but there is still a lack of knowledge into what works and how to implement educational practices to develop digital citizenship. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between young people’s participatory profile and their perceptions of the development of digital and socio-civic skills, and to understand how young people exercise their citizenship in the United Kingdom. The study consists of 124 responses to an online questionnaire. The analysed data suggests that the current framing of citizenship education curriculum in the UK is still focused on more traditional forms of political participation and more work needs to be done in terms of developing citizenship education for a digital era.