According to Joel Westheimer citizenship is the idea that we need to be engaging within our communities and improving our world. He runs that idea that people who understand and engage in citizenship also engage in critical thinking, they take part in their society, understand and engage in politics and are up to date with current events happening around them.

However Mike Capello describes citizenship as something that every member of society should have. Mike also describes citizenship as citizens who strive for change when it’s needed, contribute to paying taxes, who take the time to participate in voting, and justice-oriented, and chose to stand and participate in our national anthem.

Although my understanding of citizenship is somewhat similar to these ideals, citizenship in my eyes is about building off my knowledge and basic ideals. It is about building onto our community, as a future educator we should be very involved with our citizenship, and creating a safe environment for our community and our children and future generations. We need to work towards a better community and making our society and ideals more open to our ever growing society. It is our job as future educators to be organizing our society for change, and on the front line pushing for our future generations. Citizenship is about our social responsibility although it may not be directly related or correlated to us, we have had negative notations about our pasts.