They often benefit from learning communities and team projects. Some courses are seen to have relationship with each other and since they are seeking patterns in learning and across knowledge domains, these students often benefit from thematically related courses or projects. There is an emphasis on analysis of models and comparative approaches to knowledge. The instructor is seen as a source for models of thinking and as a coach whose own role is to help students think for themselves. There is a recognition of multiple aspects of the self and a dawning realization that one's own development may not result in all aspects of the self being in calm synthesis.
High value is placed on collaborative learning.
Data analysis from multiple points of view now makes sense. Case studies are valued. Service learning project can now be experienced and understood as mutual learning opportunities. Students begin to find relationship between general education and courses in the major. Interdisciplinary studies have strong appeal, as does experiential learning.