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Multiplying Perspectives And Improving Practice: What Can Happen When Undergraduate Students Partner With College Faculty To Explore Teaching And Learning, Alison Cook-Sather

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

Traditional structures in higher education support a separation between faculty members’ and students’ perspectives on classroom practice. This is in part because student-faculty interactions are typically defined by a focus on content coverage and by a clear delineation between faculty and student roles in engaging that content. This paper focuses on key findings from an ongoing action research study that aims to address these basic questions: (1) What happens when faculty and students engage in structured dialogue with one another about teaching and learning outside of the regular spaces within which they interact? and (2) How can such dialogic engagement …