Please respond to the following in a blog post: What examples of citizenship education do you remember from your K-12 schooling? What types of citizenship (e.g. which of the three types mentioned in the article) were the focus? Explore what this approach to the curriculum made (im)possible in regards to citizenship.

Blog post #8

Growing up in a small town being a good citizen and helping out around the town was always a huge ordeal. From a young age, we were always taught that living in a small town meant you were a tight-knight community always willing to help each other. To me, this is very true. If any family was in need of help the whole school and community would bind together to whatever they could to help. This to me was amazing. Nobody asked the school to do fundraisers, or have a town auction sale. This was just the type of thing that the community did try to be good citizens. We as a community and a small town definitely grew off of and focused on “Personally responsible citizens”. I think this is a huge part of any community and can really benefit a community if it is focused on.

In school, we talked about Citizenship very briefly, and not in very much detail. I remember sticking more too the definition of Citizenship and then moving on. We never went into detail about what this means to different people around the world or what it means to you. I remember one specific lesson where we all had to make a Canadian passport and learn all the rules we would need to know to move to a different country.  This really sticks out to me now, because maybe some students may not even be Canadian citizens at that moment the teacher just assumed and didn’t ask. There are so many people in every class and I think you have to be very inclusive and careful when talking about Citizenship as it could be a touchy subject for some students.