ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the meaning of the terms citizenship and sustainability and explains how they have become embodied in curriculum statements. They both share a common view of being based in science and potentially impacting on society. The chapter provides a statement which can be traced back to the Crick Report, from which Citizenship education was developed, which set out three key themes for Citizenship education: community involvement; political literacy; and social and moral responsibility. Since science is a human construct then all science must apply to people and their actions hence science must involve the application of ethical processes. Ethics often sparks the idea of a controversial issue. Socio-scientific issues is an alternative term for citizenship or sustainability. Everington offers the following contribution that science can make, not to citizenship but to spiritual, moral and cultural development, which can be seen as addressing social and moral responsibility and cultural involvement.
