The conference provided a forum where educators, members of public service organizations, and legislators could explore the need for and commitment to citizen education, set citizen education objectives, and generate ideas for creating a citizen education effort. Conference participants explored two major aspects of citizenship education--knowledge, skills, and attitudes conducive to citizen participation; and governance skills and opportunities such as discipline and decision making which are part of children's lives in the school, home, and community. Topics discussed include skills, political concepts, and attitudes which can help prepare students for changing world conditions; the need for school/community cooperation; gaps in student knowledge about political affairs; cognitive and affective objectives of citizenship education; curriculum development; characteristics of an ideal citizenship education program; citizen competence; and using students' everyday political experiences to help them understand the adult political world. (DB)