Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty [Hardcover]

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. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty 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.

• Provides theory and evidence to support new efforts in student-faculty partnerships
• Describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships
• Helps faculty overcome some of the perceived barriers to student-faculty partnerships
• Suggests a range of possible levels of partnership that might be appropriate in different circumstances
• 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

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.

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxv

About the Authors xxvii

1. What Are Student-Faculty Partnerships?? Our Guiding Principles and Definition 1

2. Preliminary Questions about Student-Faculty Partnerships 15

3. Partnerships with Students Examples from Individual Faculty 27

4. Program-Level Approaches to Student-Faculty Partnerships 59

5. Outcomes of Student-Faculty Partnerships? Support from Research l£0