Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume seek to understand better what it is that can be done on a day-to-day basis within institutions of liberal learning that shape the habits and practices of civil society.

Part I: Cultivating the Habits of Self-Governance in the Classroom 1. Knowledge and Community in the Undergraduate Classroom 2. On "Strongly Fortified Minds": Self-restraint and cooperation in the discussion tradition 3. Teaching the Art of Speaking Across Ideological Paradigms Part II: Place, Community and Context: Cultivating the habits of self-governance beyond the traditional classroom 4. More than Community-Based Learning: Practicing the liberal arts 5. Developing the Art of Self-Governance: Teaching the role of place in associative life Part III: The Generative Power of Social Abrasion and Social Spaces 6. The Essential Role of Abrasion in Developing Healthy Institutions of Liberal Learning 7. Communities of Liberal Learning and Social Spaces Part IV: Self-Governing Norms and Practices Across the Academy 8. Polycentricity and the Principles of Effective Co-Governance: What the Bloomington School can teach us 9. Meaningful Change Comes from the Shop Floor: Generating, growing and governing in liberal education 10. Academic Freedom as a Basis for Self-Governance