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Why Pedagogical Partnerships Matter

In pedagogical partnerships, students and teachers contribute collaboratively “to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision-making, implementation, investigation, or analysis” (Cook-Sather et al., 2014). This collection explores the question: Why do pedagogical partnerships matter?

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Alison Cook-Sather
Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education and Director, Teaching and Learning Institute
Bryn Mawr College
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Updated: August 2025
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Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty

What are pedagogical partnerships? This guide provides a thorough introduction to the concept illustrated by concrete examples from a range of teaching contexts.

Alison Cook-Sather, Catherine Bovill, and Peter Felten
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Centering Humanism in STEM Education through Student-Faculty Pedagogical Partnerships.

How can pedagogical partnerships humanize STEM education? This literature review explores the positive impacts partnerships can have on student and faculty partners, as well as on enrolled students, in STEM courses.

Frontiers in Education
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Building Courage, Confidence, and Capacity in Learning and Teaching through Pedagogical Partnership: Stories from across Contexts and Arenas of Practice

Pedagogical partnerships support co-creation of learning and teaching experiences around the world. This collection features the stories of faculty-student teams telling their partnership stories.

Alison Cook-Sather and Chanelle Wilson (Eds.)
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“The Virtues of Not Knowing”: How “Unknowingness” in Pedagogical Partnership Prepares Student Partners to Navigate Complexity, Uncertainty, and Change in Pursuit of Equity

The student voices in this article show how pedagogical partnerships can support student partners as they grapple with complexity—one of the most important but challenging elements of higher education and life beyond it.

Higher Education Research & Development
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Reviving the Construct of “Mattering” in Pursuit of Equity and Justice in Higher Education: Illustrations from Mentoring and Partnership Programs

This chapter explores the notion of “mattering,” which is related to but distinct from “belonging,” through the reflections of students engaged in pedagogical partnerships and mentoring programs.

Alison Cook-Sather, Peter Felten, Kaylyn (Kayo) Piper Stewart, and Heidi Weston
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Developing Belonging and Mattering as BIPOC Students through Student Consulting

Students learn in ways that are informed by their experiences and identities. In this essay, a student partner reflects critically across his own and three other student partners’ experiences of pedagogical partnership and how those contributed to their belonging and mattering.

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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