Building A Community of Learners"The learning community recognizes that education is a social endeavour benefiting all its members individually and collectively
A strong learning community “sets the ambience for life-giving and uplifting experiences necessary to advance an individual and [all its members]."
Common relational characteristics of learning communities are (1) sense of belonging, (2) interdependence or reliance among the members, (3) trust among members, and (4) faith or trust in the shared purpose of the community (Lenning and Ebbers 1999).
An inclusive learning community:
lives peacefully together by engaging with different ways of knowing and being: prioritizes people and their relationships, assumes shared responsibility for learning, health and well-being.
Everyone in the learning community has agency, see themselves as contributors to its strength and success, and take action to affect change."