Knowledge-Centered Environments: My Very Own Personal Bias

In reading "The Design of Learning Environments" article, I couldn't help but recognize how much my personal preference and bias aligns with the Knowledge-Centered environments over the others. As a student in higher education, I understand that this bias could be a negative influence in my work, but I maintain the importance of establishing a learning environment that enables students to learn new material in a context that will enable them to later transfer the knowledge in other situations. It is important that we, as educators, work to create and promote learning communities that foster effective and productive citizens (for lack of a better word), and it seems sensible to me to expect that this can be best accomplished when the students understand how what they've learned in the classroom applies to what they accomplish outside of the classroom.