Community learning and collaboration of students and teachers in honours education communities : a multiple embedded case study in Dutch higher education

This study sought out to improve the community learning within the Honours Approach, appraising the current curriculum against existing learning theories and learning community theories. The conclusion is an advice and how to improve and adapt community learning and collaboration between students and teachers within the Honours Approach. Furthermore, recommendations are established concerning what success factors should be further researched in community learning research. The advice for community learning and collaboration within the Saxion Honours Approach is to make participants, be it teacher, student or organization, aware of the experiential learning cycle in combination with the reflective dialogue cycle, real versus simulated learning and collaboration factors found among the researched communities. For the experiential learning cycle in combination with the reflective dialogue cycle, it should be recommended to coach one another through the different phases and not to linger in one phase too long, as it could be detrimental to the overall learning process.