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Learning Communities in Classrooms: Advancing Knowledge For a Lifetime

School of Education at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass

Allan Collins

Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.acollins{at}ils.nwu.edu

The learning-communities approach fits with the growing emphasis on lifelong learning, which can naturally be extended beyond the classroom walls. There is every reason for a learning community to include parents and members of the wider society. With the addition of computer networks it becomes possible to include scientists and other professionals, as well as students around the globe, in communities that are trying to understand and deal with social and political ideas and issues.

NASSP Bulletin, Vol. 83, No. 604, 4-10 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/019263659908360402


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