Building Courage, Confidence, and Capacity in Learning and Teaching through Pedagogical Partnership: Stories from across Contexts and Arenas of Practice
If you are looking for a range of stories of pedagogical partnership from around the world, this book includes chapters co-authored by student-faculty pairs from eight countries. The stories reveal how pedagogical partnerships matter through fostering learning, confidence, capacity, and a sense of belonging that contribute to the creation of equitable, engaging, and empowering learning and teaching.
From the Foreword, by Kelly E. Matthews:
What does it mean to be in pedagogical partnership? How does it feel? What does it sound like? Who decides what happens? Who is learning in pedagogical partnership, how does that learning unfold, and what is being learned? Alison Cook-Sather and Chanelle Wilson have created a space for us to understand the stories of pedagogical partnership—thick descriptions giving life to what it means for students to be constructing pedagogical knowledge together with teaching staff (including faculty/academics, educational developers, librarians). We expect university teaching staff to have pedagogical knowledge and know-how (to what extent that they do is a different story). Yet the pedagogical partnerships described in rich, vivid, and (often) playful detail in this collection clearly reveal students’ pedagogical knowledge as well. Taken together, the combined pedagogical knowledge, as demonstrated in the following 10 chapters co-authored by 14 students and 10 teaching staff, extends and exceeds the capacity of individual learners and teachers. I understand why courage features as a strong line of sight throughout the book and in the title. It takes courage to challenge the status quo. It takes courage to imagine a different possibility and formation for learning in higher education. It takes courage to enact a different way of being a learner and a teacher that recognizes expertise through experience. It takes courage to name your experience, author your story, and then open yourself up to public gaze and comment.