Public Lecture: Engaging Students as Partners and as Change Agents

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 23 October 2015

Time:

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Room:

313a

Location:

Advanced Engineering Building (49), St. Lucia

URL:

http://itali.uq.edu.au/content/fellowship-events

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Ways of engaging students in higher education as partners in learning and teaching is arguably one of the most important issues facing higher education in the 21st Century. Partnership is essentially a process for engaging students, though not all engagement involves partnership. It is a way of doing things, rather than an outcome in itself. This interactive session will explore four ways in which students may be engaged as partners through: a) Learning, teaching and assessment; b) Subject-based research and inquiry; c) Scholarship of teaching and learning; and d) Curriculum design and pedagogic advice and consultancy. Particular attention will be paid to how we may build on and move beyond listening to the student voice and involve students as change agents who can have an impact on the teaching and learning that they and their fellow students experience, through mentoring staff, co-researching teaching and learning, and co-designing the curriculum. It will draw on numerous case studies from Europe, North America and Australasia.

Mick Healey is a Higher Education Consultant and Researcher and Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Until 2010 he was Director of the Centre for Active Learning, a nationally funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Gloucestershire.