ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about community-based learning. Classroom and community-based education differ in several important respects. It defines the term community to mean contexts outside of classrooms, laboratories, or studios, where faculty are in control of the pedagogical variables. The chapter points out two key ways in which contextual education can extend and deepen learning: the opportunity to strengthen shaky confidence and demonstrates the need to put the brake on it. One can conceptualize the habits or virtues of judgment and humility as complementary and in tension with each other. Beloit College has articulated the liberal arts in practice as the way we do business and has put structures into place that make explicit to internal and external audiences how collaborative self-governance can be supported and facilitated. Two courses in the history department made explicit connections between liberal education and civic engagement.
