Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty
One of the first books to name and define pedagogical partnership, this text provides theoretical grounding, describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships, and includes helpful responses to a range of common questions. Capturing the ways that pedagogical partnerships matter in building engaging and effective pedagogical approaches, the voices of faculty, students, and administrators who have hands-on experience with partnership programs bring this work alive.
Partnerships are based on respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility between students and faculty. These qualities of relationship emerge when we are able to bring students’ insights into discussions about learning and teaching practice in meaningful ways — ways that make teaching and learning more engaging and effective for students and for ourselves. In our own teaching and in the partnership work we have studied, we have found that respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility are fostered when we draw on students’ insights not only through collecting their responses to our courses but also through working with them to study and design teaching and learning together.