Throughout my K-12 schooling experience, I never recognized education as citizenship education. I went to both elementary and high school here in Regina and each school worked very hard on being an inclusive, caring school. The most I remember from my elementary schooling was recycling and volunteering our time a couple of times a year to spend at the folks home across the street from our elementary school. We would play games, chat and dance with them and would visit them on holidays when their families weren't able to. We were taught that as a younger generation it was important and that it would make them feel happy and uplifting. Our school also did canned food drives and clothing drives once a year. One other thing I do remember was that in elementary school every year we would always have fundraisers to help raise money to build schools in other places of the world or to make school supplies packages to send to kids who could not afford the tools needed for school.
After reading this article there are three types of citizenship, theses being personally responsible, participatory, and justice oriented citizen. I believe all of these play a major role in the development of a child (in some way) within the schooling system. It is one of the ways education tries to shape students into a specific model which will benefit and fit into society and societies needs. Throughout my schooling I definitely had more of a personally responsible citizen take away from the education I received than the other two areas. Especially throughout my elementary years we were always told that being an active part of society and volunteering or donating to other less fortunate was something you should do. That it was important to extend an open arm, learn from the experience and that those things would greatly help shape who we would become. Being that personally responsible citizen who was honest, kind and humble was something to strive for. To follow all the laws, staying out of debit and not to litter are all things that are taught as common sense. Being a personally responsible citizen is taught not so much as you are giving back and being apart of the community (while they play a major role) but as something that is a part of societies common sense and that everyone should do and know, which is not always being idealistic. Schools want the students to be very inclusive and to have participatory, and or justice oriented citizens as they take the most action and really impact what they are doing. A lot of schools produce many personally responsible citizens just because they never had the chance to participate in other ways like other students did or they just don't wish too. Either way becoming one of these 3 types of citizens depends on the type of schooling and the type of person the student is and what they take away from their experiences.
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