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The concise Oxford English dictionary offers this definition of the word, community, which come from Latin communis, or ‘common’: a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together or occupying a specified habitat. I like this biological perspective on community as a way of describing a classroom environment, for a classroom is and should be a place where a group of interdependent people are growing and living together.
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Paxton, M. (2011). The Heart of Teaching. In: Gouzouasis, P. (eds) Pedagogy in a New Tonality. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-669-4_1
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