Engaging students through student-staff partnerships
“At its roots partnership is about investing students with the power to co-create, not just knowledge or learning, but the higher education institution itself”
- National Union of Students (nd)
“the future of student engagement lies in partnership”. - Bryson (2014)
‘Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching’ Workshop, University College Cork, 2014
Ways of engaging students in higher education as partners in learning and teaching is arguably one of the most important issues facing higher education in the 21st Century. Partnership is essentially a process for engaging students. It is a way of doing things, rather than an outcome in itself. This workshop will explore four ways in which students may be engaged as partners through: a) Learning, teaching and assessment; b) Subject-based research and inquiry; c) Scholarship of teaching and learning; and d) Curriculum design and pedagogic advice and consultancy.
The themes will be illustrated with many mini case studies from different parts of the world. We will also discuss the values which should underpin student-staff partnerships and explore how the ideas discussed may be applied. The workshop will be useful to academic staff, learning support staff and students.
For an introduction to the model of students as partners see this video. Click here for a presentation on ‘The importance of context in student-staff partnerships’ by Ruth and Mick to RAISE SIG on 20 November 2019; and here for a presentation on ‘Promoting Pandemic Partnerships’ on 2 October 2020 to RAISE SIG (from 8.07min to 55.25 mins).
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— Griffith University, Australia
“Love what you are doing promoting audience ‘active’ and ‘interactive engagement’ with the material, including giving us time to read and reflect on case studies that might interest us.”