Website: Instructional Strategies
Students as Partners
Elon University Center for Engaged Learning
Our
Recommendation
This resource provides a brief overview of the key scholarship concerning student partnership and explores the commitments, potential impacts, and research-informed practices of the field. In our program, this resource is required pre-reading for those new to the idea of students as partners.
Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, or simply Students as Partners (SaP), is a pedagogical approach that has been embraced recently by many higher education institutions primarily in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. SaP implies students and faculty/academic staff working in collaboration, as partners, to improve teaching and learning experiences (Mercer-Mapstone et al., 2017). Healey et al. describe SaP as “a relationship in which all involved – students, academics, professional services staff, senior managers, students’ unions, and so on – are actively engaged in and stand to gain from the process of learning and working together” (2014, p. 12).
Website