June 1, 2018Student-Faculty Partnership as Cosmopolitan Practiceby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog post I reflect on a recently published chapter “Ethics of Academic Leadership: Guiding Learning and Teaching” by Cook-Sather and Felten that appeared in an edited volume titled Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education (2017). The…
May 15, 2018Conceptions of Students as Partners: Australian Perspectiveby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog post, I discuss a recently published article by Matthews et al. (2018) in which the authors have studied the perspectives of students and faculty in Australia engaged in partnerships on pedagogical issues. The article raises some important…
March 19, 2018Student-Faculty Partnerships at Diverse Colleges and Universitiesby Ketevan KupatadzeFollowing Bryn Mawr/Haverton Colleges’ example and leadership, several other colleges in the U.S. started establishing and promoting student-faculty partnership programs in recent years. Some of these are Smith College, Lewis and Clark, Oberlin, Reed, Brigham Young University and Ursinus Colleges….
February 15, 2018Bryn Mawr College’s Experience with Partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeBryn Mawr College’s Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) developed a student-faculty partnership program, “Students as Learners and Teachers” (SaLT), that has been successfully running and expanding since 2006. TLI’s initial goal, when it was part of a larger initiative that…
January 16, 2018Student-Faculty Partnerships at McMaster Universityby Ketevan KupatadzeIn my next few blog posts my intention is to feature several higher education institutions that have been at the forefront of student-faculty partnerships with the intention of identifying some of the successful practices within this pedagogy, as well as…
January 2, 2018Belonging and Inclusionby Ketevan KupatadzeIn my previous blog posts I have written about the potential of student-faculty partnership to challenge the hierarchies that still exist and perpetuate inequality, as well as non-democratic structure and practices of higher education. I have also written about some…
December 12, 2017Student-Faculty Partnership and Engaged Learningby 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 traditional role…
November 14, 2017An example of student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeDr. Tine Wirenfeldt Jensen, a colleague of mine from Denmark, is an educational consultant and has a long-standing experience with partnering with students to design pedagogical tools that are simultaneously educational, intellectually engaging, and fun. Tine designed an educational board…
October 24, 2017Vulnerabilities in Student-Faculty Partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeSeveral 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 I would…
October 10, 2017Process-Driven Model of Educationby Ketevan KupatadzeIn 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 the open…