Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching

ALISON COOK-SATHER 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.CATHERINE BOVILL 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. PETER FELTEN is executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning and assistant provost at Elon University. His other books include Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2013).

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xxvAbout the Authors xxvii1. What Are Student-Faculty Partnerships?  Our Guiding Principles and Definition 12. Preliminary Questions about Student-Faculty Partnerships 153. Partnerships with Students Examples from Individual Faculty 274. Program-Level Approaches to Student-Faculty Partnerships 595. Outcomes of Student-Faculty Partnerships  Support from Research Literature and Outcomes for Faculty and Students 976. The Challenges of Student-Faculty Partnerships 1337. Practical Strategies for Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships 1438. Further Questions about Student-Faculty Partnerships 1719. Assessing Processes and Outcomes of Student-Faculty Partnerships 18710. Next Steps . . . Toward a Partnership Movement? 203Appendix I: The Ladder of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design 213Appendix II: Guidelines for the Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) Program at Bryn Mawr College (Modified for This Volume) 217Appendix III: Practical Strategies for Developing Student-led Research Projects  From the Students as Change Agents Program, University of Exeter, United Kingdom 229References 231Index 257