Full Description
Creating, Sustaining, and Enhancing Purposeful School-University Partnerships: Building Connections Across Diverse Educational Systems explores third space school-university partnerships that are connected to initial and ongoing teacher education, adding to an important literature base with a focus on how these partnerships can be created, sustained, and enhanced, why they are important, and who they can benefit. Emeritus Professor Kenneth M. Zeichner, author of a seminal work on the third space in teacher education, provides a foreword for this edited book that brings together examples of purposeful school-university partnerships authored by academics and practitioners in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, the United States of America, Nepal, and Bhutan. This international cohort of contributing authors explores the life cycles and phases of school-university partnerships, the factors that enable and constrain them, and the effects they have on thoseinvolved through case studies, narrative vignettes, action research, and longitudinal research. The accounts shared throughout this book are thoughtful contributions to an expanding body of knowledge delving into the significance and importance of meaningful collaborations that build connections across all aspects of education.
Contents
Section 1: Introducing School-University Partnerships.- Creating, Sustaining, and Enhancing Purposeful School-University Partnerships: An Introduction.- The Nature of School-University Partnerships.- Section 2: Value and Benefits of School-University Partnerships.- Invitations, Impact, and Involvement: Tales from Successful School-University Partnerships in STEM and STEAM in Australian Schools.- A New Model for School-University Collaborations: Mobilising Academic Knowledge and Building Cross Sectoral Synergies Around Inquiry Learning.- Creating Shared Spaces: A Collaborative Partnership Model that Prepares Initial Teacher Education Students for Effective Practice.- The co-design of an embedded school-university partnership: An application of Dewey's laboratory style approach to PST experiences in schools.- Professional Partners in Practice: Enhancing Institutional Partnership Connections in Early Childhood through an Embedded University Mentorship Program.- The 'Butterfly Effect' of Mentoring Practices in School-University Partnerships.- Using a Networked Professional Learning Community to Prepare Pre-service Teachers.- Section 3: Dynamic Partnerships that Change Over Time.- School-university partnerships on the edge of possibility: Expansive learning and practice transformation across Australia, Nepal, and Bhutan.
