Executing the National Curriculum of Digital Citizenship Education in the Country of Georgia

Abstract

The international events of recent years have provided us with a new perspective on citizenship in the modern world, where the borderlines between online and real life are erased and blurred. To navigate safely and ethically in the online space, it is essential to integrate digital citizenship education into curricula not only at the national level but also at the level. The present study aims to collect the subjective evaluations and positions of the school community regarding the implementation of educational innovation in general education, in particular, the digital citizenship curriculum. Critical and curriculum research approaches were used within the research. An in-depth interview and focus group are used as a research method. Five school principals and fifty-five teachers participated in the research. Based on the study results, the following conclusions are drawn: Georgia's general education system should create conditions for schools to select the programmed one, the adaptive-evolutionary one, or the hybrid one -which would be more effective at a specific school and which approach would facilitate achieving the best results.