Full Description
A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty offers administrators, faculty, and students both the theoretical grounding and practical guidelines needed to develop student-faculty partnerships that affirm and improve teaching and learning in higher education.
Provides theory and evidence to support new efforts in student-faculty partnerships
Describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships
Helps faculty overcome some of the perceived barriers to student-faculty partnerships
Suggests a range of possible levels of partnership that might be appropriate in different circumstances
Includes helpful responses to a range of questions as well as advice from faculty, students, and administrators who have hands-on experience with partnership programs
Balancing theory, step-by-step guidelines, expert advice, and practitioner experience, this book is a comprehensive why- and how-to handbook for developing a successful student-faculty partnership program.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Authors xxvii
1. What Are Student-Faculty Partnerships? Our Guiding Principles and Definition 1
2. Preliminary Questions about Student-Faculty Partnerships 15
3. Partnerships with Students Examples from Individual Faculty 27
4. Program-Level Approaches to Student-Faculty Partnerships 59
5. Outcomes of Student-Faculty Partnerships Support from Research Literature and Outcomes for Faculty and Students 97
6. The Challenges of Student-Faculty Partnerships 133
7. Practical Strategies for Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships 143
8. Further Questions about Student-Faculty Partnerships 171
9. Assessing Processes and Outcomes of Student-Faculty Partnerships 187
10. Next Steps . . . Toward a Partnership Movement? 203
Appendix I: The Ladder of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design 213
Appendix II: Guidelines for the Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) Program at Bryn Mawr College (Modified for This Volume) 217
Appendix III: Practical Strategies for Developing Student-led Research Projects From the Students as Change Agents Program, University of Exeter, United Kingdom 229
References 231
Index 257
