Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching

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<b>A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education</b><p>Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however.<i>Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty</i> offers administrators, faculty, and students both the theoretical grounding and practical guidelines needed to develop student-faculty partnerships that affirm and improve teaching and learning in higher education.</p><ul><li>Provides theory and evidence to support new efforts in student-faculty partnerships</li><li>Describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships</li><li>Helps faculty overcome some of the perceived barriers to student-faculty partnerships</li><li>Suggests a range of possible levels of partnership that might be appropriate in different circumstances</li><li>Includes helpful responses to a range of questions as well as advice from faculty, students, and administrators who have hands-on experience with partnership programs</li></ul><p>Balancing theory, step-by-step guidelines, expert advice, and practitioner experience, this book is a comprehensive why- and how-to handbook for developing a successful student-faculty partnership program.</p>

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<p><b>ALISON COOK-SATHER</b> is the Mary Katherine Woodworth Professor of Education and coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr College. She publishes and presents widely on student voice and student-teacher partnerships.</p><p><b>CATHERINE BOVILL</b> is a senior lecturer in the Academic Development Unit at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her research and publications focus on students and staff cocreating curricula.<p><b>PETER FELTEN</b> is executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning and assistant provost at Elon University. His other books include<i>Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education</i> (Jossey-Bass, 2013).

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