by Ketevan Kupatadze “Student consultants and faculty members forge partnerships outside of the regular teacher/student relationship, explore dimensions of teaching and learning not generally discussed outside of education courses, and model for the entire community a form of collaboration that challenges …

by Ketevan Kupatadze Several questions came up this semester as I tried to use some of the strategies of student-faculty partnership in a course that I teach and as I reflected on the reactions that I received from students. The questions …

by Ketevan Kupatadze In this blog I will continue reflecting on the various ways in which the student-faculty partnership model could challenge or simply take a different approach towards the established higher education system. Here I focus on Students-as-Partner’s emphasis on …

by Ketevan Kupatadze “Although advocates for liberal education frequently cite the goal of developing skills necessary for students to function as democratic citizens (such as critical thinking, recognition and understanding of multiple perspectives, and the employment of scrutiny and reason), the …

by Ketevan Kupatadze Research around student-faculty partnership suggests that such partnership challenges Western higher education systems in several important ways. Student-faculty partnership or Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: destabilizes the existing consumer-oriented model of teaching and learning (Cook Sather …

by Ketevan Kupatadze If you are anything like me, you think about each and every detail of your teaching almost on a daily basis. You try things, you change details, attempting to improve what works or change what does not. After …