How can the Communities of Learning approach get started? How can it avoid lapsing into being just another top-down dictate?
By voluntary, grass-roots implementation Implementing the multi-centered, voluntary-community model of Community Learning Centers would not be a disruptive, cumbersome, or difficult process. This model has no single central authority making executive decisions – – neither local nor national. Therefore, there would never be one grand, centrally mandated changeover. In fact, any kind of sweeping mandate would be antithetical to the very spirit of this model. Instead, this model offers a way in which autonomous groups of local citizens can work in their own geographic areas to develop their own unique learning opportunities. Each individual group would first establish its own set of essential core values to use as a foundation for their programs. Each group would develop learning offerings in a process of continually adaptive, self-organizing flux, ever responsive to the needs and wants of its members. These local groups would use the previously discussed “growth by chunking” process : bu
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- How can we move from the current, very large system of single-centered edifices to the approach of Multi-Centered Networks of Communities of Learning?
- How will alternative and Exceptional Children schools be absorbed into the learning communities?
- Where can I view the maps of the learning communities?
