Reimagining citizenship: Findings and conclusions of a critical literature review of scholarship on citizenship education

Citizenship and citizenship education are complex terms, understood in multiple and diverse ways. After a brief introduction to conceptions of citizenship, this article discusses a literature review of citizenship education scholarship. The article focuses on exploring how the field has evolved since the work on citizenship education in the 1990s, identifying the emergence of six major themes or areas of study. The article concludes with a discussion that synthesizes the findings and recommends a reimagining of citizenship in and for the twenty-first century.