I agree with Eugene. Describing a classroom as a community of learners
perpetuates the idea of learning as a separate activity and as an end in
itself. I personally prefer to talk of a community of inquiry. Bereiter
and Scardamalia refer to a knowledge building community. In both cases,
the attempt is to emphasize the student+teacher's active and collaborative
engagement in making and doing in relation to issues of interest and
concern to them.
Gordon Wells
OISE?University of Toronto