October 16, 2018Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Claire Lockard and maggie castor on Student-Faculty Partnershipsby Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was extremely fortunate to have a conversation with Dr. Stephen Bloch-Shulman and then undergraduate, but now graduate students, Claire Lockard and maggie castor, about their experiences with partnership in teaching and learning. Stephen, maggie, and Claire have…
September 27, 2018What Happens if Disagreement in Partnership is Unevenly Experienced?by Sophia Abbot This past January and February, my colleague and I launched research exploring the ways students and faculty in partnership can experience disagreement in generative ways that ultimately enhance their partnered relationship along with the broader goals of…
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 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 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…
July 17, 2018Reflections on our experiences with partnership on course (re)designby Lucia Maribel Craige, Erin Jenkins, and Ketevan KupatadzeFollowing our recent experience with student-faculty partnership on course (re)design, we offer some thoughts on the process, its purpose, its benefits, and some of the risks involved. Throughout several future blog posts, we – Lucia, Erin, and Ketevan – reflect…