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izenship has a lot of meanings and context. This is the reason that council of Europe (2000) has embraced a multidimensional approach to citizenship. It has also given the definition of citizenship as being primarily a co- citizen where he loves other and interacts with them on the basis of his rights and responsibilities.

Thus, because of above mentioned concept arise a difference between citizenship as states. Citizenship is something that leads to a legal contract between the individual and the state along with the nationality, so an individual is subject to rights and responsibilities, liberties and duties granted by the state to an individual. In fact, Citizenship plays a social role in issues of identity, sense of belonging and inclusiveness are included Citizenship is dissociated from a particular estate since it is context related depending upon the community it refers to whether (local, regional, European or global). It focuses primarily on the inter-relations among the co-citizen.

2.7 The Origins of Citizenship Concept

The origin of concept of citizenship is specifically from the ancient Greece (Heater, 1999). Heater explained citizenship as a legal term and a term of social states during the period of Greek and the Romans civilization. Heater, Kymlicka and Norman, Crick stevick and Levinson are of the view that citizenship is related to the reconstruction and creation of a nation state. Crick (2000) further categorized it as a major part of modern and contemporary civilization. Hargrieves cited in Crick 2000 that citizens in this regard are those individuals. who have legal right and power to interfere in the affairs of a city. A city is places contaminated by people sharing ideologies and have common structure they have a certain status that is conferred on them by the city. (Heater, 1999). Why a status is conferred by the state, it is merely to shape society politically to fit in the different kind of citizens, which a estate wants. Hence, the traditional idea of citizenship education is based on duties and responsibilities performed by citizen. (Crick , 2000)

Another concept of citizenship education is related with “National Identify”. According to this concept that legal status of citizenship is attached and associated with national state, therefore it is associated with loyalty and patriotism. This idea is related with being good citizens, those who are the faithful for national identify and national states.

In the ninetieth century, the “liberal idea of citizenship education” was developed. These liberal views were based on duties which were perfumed by the citizen. The concept of citizenship was extended slowly. Therefore, for society and people of society the idea of justice and political rights became familiarized.

In the twentieth century the idea of “social citizenship education” was promoted and become progressive and functional. The supporters of this idea recognizing that civil and political rights are not part of citizenship. The supporters of this idea argued that citizenship must cover the rights of citizens in their own living and working conditions. This idea further argues that only participation in politics and political affairs is not citizenship education.

The concept of “Dual citizenship” and “Multiple Citizenship” is another concept and idea of citizenship. This type of citiz