Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching

<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>