ABSTRACT
This chapter affirms the importance of civic acculturation associated with the nation-state. In a world of low/no growth, the three-legged political economy of State, Market, and Livelihood will militate the re-nationalization and regionalization of the global economy, greater viscosity in the flow of people, information and things, and the partial re-emergence and reassertion of local, community, and city-level institutions against the rationalizing and universalizing logic of the national state. New goals relating to education focus on this need for education: to serve the informal and reciprocal economy of livelihood; in addition to the high culture of exo-education, to consolidate lower-level cultural communities; to service traditional local and craft production that does not seek necessarily to compete in directly in the Market; to consolidate rather than undermine individual connections with extended family and place-attached communities.
