Citizenship looks different for every person. To say that someone is a good citizen doesn’t feel right to me. I think that the role of education in creating good citizens is not as important as just creating students who feel happy within themselves. I feel that it is hard to determine what a good citizen would be, I think that there are obvious labels that could be placed on citizenship but then I would be placing certain attributes into a category and leaving the rest separate. I feel that morals are important and the video with Joel Westheimer talks about citizenship and the role of students well. He mentions how we should be familiarizing students with “different perspectives” that come with politics and how a school can bring politics in to support a form of intellectual understanding. I feel that an open understanding is important in education, and I feel the same about citizenship. I think that it would be great to have students who are active within society and good citizens but realistically there have to be developmental steps before that, including happy and confident students who take the effort to understand the world around them.

Citizenship and Treaty education can be connected to the need for Treaty education within the curriculum. Citizenship and involvement can support students in understanding the world which may guide a more inclusive and influential Treaty education. Understanding other people and the past can guide a form of education that steps away from colonial-based actions and methods of teaching and understanding. With the actions of justice oriented citizens we can see change towards a more just Treaty education.