Such efforts can help us renew our commitment to the national community through service to the local community. Such participation can help to shatter our narrow, national encapsulation and expand our global understanding. Implementation of civic education for global understanding calls for changes in the traditional approach to social studies subject matter as well. Economics too assumes a significant role in this new approach to civic education. Achieving a new civic education for global understanding will be difficult.
Many factors mitigate against it.
Yet the future of American democracy depends in large part on how well the citizens of our nation gain the competence of citizenship needed to carry out their civic responsibilities, both here at home and in the world. The following list of resources includes references used to prepare this Digest. However, they can be located in the journal section of most larger libraries by using the bibliographic information provided, requested through Interlibrary Loan, or ordered from the UMI reprint service. Ballantine Books, 1992. Teachers College Press, 1988.