All we can do as educators is to provide the environment and watch the results. Basically, we are just providing opportunities for them to make choices and learn from these choices in all settings-academic, social, emotional, etc. The most critical partnership which has to be cultivated is the one between the student and teacher. A final note regarding the topic of community learning is that it cannot take place without the involvement of the community. Collaboration between institutions and the communities they serve is the only way this can effectively take place.
Partnerships can expose students to a variety of ways of assimilating and interpreting data.
If the learning has the purpose of creating a learning community or contextualizing the learning within a definable community, the partners have succeeded in addressing the element of community.