A Learning Community

A learning community characterized by both a consequence and responsibility for 8.-A learning community provides a regular assessment, consistent and appropriate by a wide variety of feedback. 9 .- A learning community is energized for a purpose, vision or shared mission. The key in these communities is cooperation rather than competition, emphasis on learning: 1) Students are responsible for their own learning, 2) learning experiences are appropriate to the needs and interests of students, 3 ) Students are actively involved in learning in a variety of groups and contexts, 4) Learning is understood, implemented, demonstrated and internalized (Cooper and Boyd, 1994) (11). Fabrizio Freda contributes greatly to this topic. The anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson (1994) tells us: “We are called to participate in a dance whose steps must be learned only along the way … Improvisation and new learning processes are not private, are shared with any other age … so it is important to address and respond.