ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains how he came to be convinced of the educational and social efficacy and necessity of integrating work in the community into the curriculum, both in higher and in secondary education. He describes how he has tried to go about this; and relates some of the inherent educational and social considerations and the effects of community action projects upon the students and upon those whom we have sought to understand and become involved with. The chapter believes that they can provide optimum learning situations for understanding what might otherwise be regarded as boring and thus prove inaccessible. It believes that community action projects provide an entree into action and democratic participation on the basis of understanding such that what is understood does not frustrate by being merely understood. A circuit of tree houses joined by walkways of rope and timber, aerial runways, nets and rope ladders encircled a wooden fortress with a tower.
