October 30, 2018Lessons from Peer Tutoring Towards Mentoring Undergraduate Researchby Sophia Abbot As I’ve reflected on the findings of my recent collaborative research and subsequent blog post on peer tutoring, I’ve begun to consider ways lessons from that work might inform practices in other student-instructor relationships. What I mean…
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 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…