In Gee’s article “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces” he first discusses the rhetoric behind the idea that a community is a “community” (214). A community implies that there is membership and for their to be members or membership means that some people or group of people need to be excluded. That is why Gee argues that we should no longer be call classrooms communities but instead call them spaces. A space is just an area or place to be used and does not by definition exclude anyone. To be even more specific, it should be a semiotic social space where students and their teacher work together to create meaning for the complex ideas and concepts addressed in a classroom. The way that meaning should be created should be modelled like a
