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something which has both legal and social meaning. Legally it refers to al the rights and responsibilities that a citizen enjoys given by the estate in recognition of their affiliation to a particular country. In social sense citizenship refers to all those activities and social work that an individual performs demonstrating his/her rights and responsibilities.

In the view of above definitions and concepts, Engle and Ochoa citing the work of Wesley (1988) in the same way and observes citizenship to be having the characteristics of a society. The further explained that citizenship is a process that involves rational and well thought decisions by the citizen of the society. Rationale in this sense refers to the continuous complex situations that a citizen faces and then derides in those morally ambiguous situations.

2.5 Citizenship Education in school

Citizenship education remained one of the most important topic in public schools historically. Infect Conley (1989) claimed that it is mandatory for public education to train citizens in the widest sense of the term. This broader concept of citizenship is mainly concerned with the development of sense of identity i-e one is different from other people a sense of unity among themselves. It not only includes the rights and obligation’s knowledge (Hughes 1994) however Osborne in 1992 quoted that in the current situation of education reform major emphasis has been on perceived economic priorities rather than on citizenship but perhaps good citizens pay their role as a responsible citizen for the well being of their nation and this ensure success in the international market place.

Basically citizenship means how we live and behave in the society and how our coming generation would be. In simple words it arises from a ethical perspective. There are a lot more proposals under consideration for an effective and good citizenship education:

What our concept of citizenship is that how we are loyal to others and to the nation and what are our views of an ideal society. Major concern is with the normative sense of good citizenship rather than that of legal definition of citizenship. This concept of good citizenship differs largely with time, culture gender and political philosophies.

According to Gagon and Page, 1999, there are 4 components of citizenship views, namely (a) national identity (b) Social, cultural and supranational belonging, (c) an effective system of political rights and (d) civic participation of citizen.

There is a variety of citizen with regards to contribution and involvement in society. In Canada where some groups experience a sense of exclusion in terms of race, language, ethnicity, gender, belief and poverty.

In the recent past years the concept of citizenship has become a brooder, Now there are multiple ways of being a resident. In Western countries a individual might be a resident of Portugal as well as Western Partnership, the latter as a supra-national classification. In North America a individual might be a resident of a first country as a resident of Quebec, Canada, and also a resident of North America. This is what called as multicultural citizenship sometimes shortened to multiple citizenship. (Kymlicka, 1995)

2.6 New Conception of Citizenship of Education

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