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Definition of class as a learning community

1. In the broad sense is "communities of knowledge construction ", any group of individuals willing to share their knowledge of community and to introduce, with the support staff, significant changes.
2. Sharing knowledge means to promote discussion and collaboration among group members, for everybody to get involved and fully responsible for the role they must play. Students not only take on the role of learners, but they become carriers of "theories" they share with teachers and parents through dialogue and negotiation.
3. "The idea of \u200b\u200ba classroom as a socio-cultural system" : students become the protagonists of the educational process, have thought and reflection, they consider themselves as researchers engaged in critical analysis for solving various problems. The goal is to transform knowledge from the redefinition of their beliefs.

The learning communities are also characterized by:

• "diversity" of skills among members
• the presence of a shared objective
• the conception of learning as research
• the presence of mechanisms for sharing what has been learned