1. Include your studentsí communities in their learning. Send work home with parents that can be done with small children; make assignments about aging for older students or for those caring for the aged; ask students to think about their community's probable response to issues raised in class.
  2. Duplicate communal living by having students work in small groups. Consider both long term groups and short term groups.
  3. Duplicate communal living by having students work in small groups. Consider both long term groups and short term groups.
  4. Establish student "experts" in class and use them as references for other students. For example, a student with children in school may become the resident expert on public school issues and a student aiming to join the military may become the resident American military expert.

For complete, original article, see Doc. Code/Section: AB0052 / PT 01 ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career & Vocational Education – Practical Application Brief by Susan Imel, 1998; Available online through OTAN