September 25, 2018Dan Bernstein on student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with Dr. Daniel Bernstein about his experience on partnering with students in the field of teaching and learning. In this blog, I summarize some of the most salient points…
September 11, 2018Relationships & Positionality in Undergraduate Peer Tutoringby Sophia Abbot As a former student partner in Bryn Mawr College’s Students as Learners and Teachers program (see: Kupatadze, 2018), when I began my professional staff position in educational development following graduation, I sought out students occupying similar in-between…
September 6, 2018Need for institutionalizing student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan Kupatadze Student-faculty partnership as an institutional practice is an integral part of (higher) education systems and, in my opinion, essential for student-faculty partnership success. It is very difficult to engage in student-faculty partnership in an environment in which it is…
August 30, 2018The Writing Center as a Site of Transfer for Consultantsby Julia BleakneyFor researchers seeking to understand more about the transfer of learning about writing beyond the university, former writing center consultants are important alumni to study. In their work in the writing center, undergraduate peer consultants have opportunities not just to…
August 28, 2018The Package I am Inby Buffie Longmire-AvitalYears ago I was reading a book with my oldest son, who after looking at the various dyadic pairs of characters on a particular page began to observe out loud who “matched” and who didn’t. He then moved the conversation…
August 22, 2018Partnership-based pedagogy and its discontentsby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog I continue to reflect on my experience with student-faculty partnership during the spring of 2018 and the lessons learnt not only in regards to partnerships, but also teaching and learning in general. Here I focus specifically on…
August 15, 2018Center Hosts Fall 2018 Reading GroupsThe Center for Engaged Learning will host two reading groups this fall for Elon University faculty, staff, and graduate students. Students as Partners 2017-2019 CEL Scholar Ketevan Kupatadze and 2018-2020 CEL Graduate Apprentice Sophia Abbot will facilitate discussions about Engaging Students…
August 2, 2018Reflections on our experiences with partnership on course (re)designby Lucia Maribel Craige, Erin Jenkins, and Ketevan Kupatadze In this blog post we continue reflecting on our experience with student-faculty partnership on course (re)design. Here we address some of the transformational features of student-faculty partnership and offer our thoughts…
July 26, 2018The High Impact of Engaging Race Consciously by Buffie Longmire-AvitalFor over a decade, Kuh’s (2008) work on the critical importance of engaged learning has shaped the undergraduate college and university experience. Taking part in at least one engaged learning practice, dubbed “High Impact Practices,” at some point during a…
July 24, 2018Reflections on the benefits of student-faculty partnershipsby Lucia Maribel Craige, Erin Jenkins, and Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog post we continue reflecting on our experience with student-faculty partnership on course (re)design. Here we will be responding to two reflective questions: Student-faculty partnership is a relatively new concept for faculty and for students. Those of us…