Previously I viewed citizenship as your nationality or the country in which you live in. Now I can see that citizenship is of course much more than that, citizenship also means engagement. Being engaged with your country and even community is part of citizenship. In the lecture we talked about three types of citizenship, each type is present in todays society. After listening to the podcast one thing that I took away is yes education and schooling are good at creating the Personally-Responsible citizen, but creating students who are Justice Oriented or Participatory is not the same. Treaty Education on the other hand relates to citizenship in the sense that he sees things like reconciliation, decolonization, land acknowledgements etc. as things that we don’t just have to do. Rather it should be looked at as something that we need to do in order to build a better future for our country. This can be looked at as a view from someone who is seen as a Justice Oriented citizen, A person who strives towards social change and justice rather than charity. Something like treaty education is important to Canadian citizenship and the future of Canadian society.
Wonderful blog, it’s short but got the main points down from the podcast/video. Though even more could be added to the points to flesh them out more, I think you did a great job on this blog post.
This is well thought out and expressed, giving points from the video and podcast as well as personal definition!
I like your thoughts and methods of teaching citizenship to students and I agree to your methods and strategies. my only advice is it would be nice to see little more elaboration on the topic. Thanks for sharing!
This was a well-written blog, especially with how you used all the different types of citizens. You could have expanded more. All in all great work and great job bringing in not only the podcast/video but also the lecture.
All in all I enjoyed this post a lot, it was short, sweet and straight to the point. As I thought you brought up some interesting ideas, I would have loved to hear you discuss more on treaty education in the curricula. All in all though, I look forward to reading more of your future work this semester.