Building Courage, Confidence, and Capacity in Learning and Teaching through Student-Faculty Partnership

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This volume makes a vital contribution to the literature on student-faculty partnership by weaving together rich, reflective narratives that showcase and analyse how partnership is lived and experienced by individuals in a diverse array of institutional, cultural, and national contexts. The student and faculty contributors write with honesty and insight, clearly reflecting the courage, confidence, and capacity highlighted by Cook-Sather and Wilson in their framing chapters, and sharing experiences and advice that will be of interest to new and experienced partnership practitioners alike. -- Elizabeth Marquis, McMaster University This inspiring book is brimming with the stories of students and their faculty and staff pedagogical partners. Alison Cook-Sather and Chanelle Wilson have collected voices from eight countries to illustrate the struggle, the bravery, the commitment, and the transformation that partnership both requires and enables in higher education teaching and learning. Read these stories to get a glimpse of what is possible when students, faculty, and staff work together to make their classrooms and institutions places that are equitable, engaging, and empowering. -- Peter Felten, Elon University This book provides vivid, honest, and nuanced descriptions of student-faculty partnerships in practice from around the world. The stories and accounts contained in this volume offer wonderful insights into the experiences of pedagogical partnerships involving student and faculty pairs or small groups of students. The book highlights the powerful transformations that are possible when students and faculty are open to the unfamiliar, and approach learning and teaching as a shared endeavor. -- Catherine Bovill, the University of Edinburgh