Social Studies is all about citizenship education, and it seeks to produce active and effective citizens. The Social Studies perspective of citizenship can be explained as a tradition that emphasizes civic duty, the submission of individual interest to that of the common good and public sphere, and a social justice system where citizens seek out and discuss elements of social injustice and oppression such as exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence, to foster social change (Sim 2008; Journell 2010), cited in (Bergen & Mclean (2014). An effective citizen,...
