Make Students Express Themselves
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Diane Schallert
Dept. of Educational Psychology, College Education
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A sense of community helps students to fully participate in their learning process by having them perceive the environments as safe and by fostering their sense of obligation or responsibility to meet the needs of the group (Moller, Harvey, Downs, & Godshalk, 2000).
Related Resources
McMillan, D. W., & Chavis, D. M. (1986). Sense of community: A definition and theory. Journal of Community Psychology, 14(1), 6-23.
Moller, L. A., Harvey, D., Downs, M., & Godshalk, V. (2000). Identifying factors that effect learning community development and performance in asynchronous distance education. The Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 1(4), 293-305.
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