Education Research Seminar – Thursday 13th October 1- 2pm
Walk a while in my shoes – student-staff partnerships for new perspectives
Joy Jarvis, Professor of Educational Practice, and Karen Clark, Learning, Teaching and Innovation Centre, University of Hertfordshire
Thursday 13th October 1- 2pm, Mayfield 126, Falmer Campus, 2016
This was a well-attended session that attracted interest from across the university.
Joy Jarvis and Karen Clark from the University of Hertfordshire shared their learning from student-staff partnership projects undertaken over the past six years. They gave examples of enquiry projects undertaken in a number of disciplines, identified their learning from and about the partnership process, and explained their current work to engage the wider University community in exploring this approach.
Karen Clark is a Principal lecturer with the University of Hertfordshire’s Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre. She is interested in the impact of cross-disciplinary groups on learning and teaching in higher education and models of student-staff collaboration.
Joy Jarvis is currently Professor of Educational Practice at the University of Hertfordshire and a UK National Teaching Fellow. She is interested in researching teaching, including different pedagogical approaches, the impact of student-staff partnership projects, and how leadership of learning in higher education can be enhanced.
Listen to Joy talk about the genuinely exploratory and ‘bottom up’ principles that underpinned the approach (5 mins):
Listen to Karen talk about the evolution of the ‘Reading in Law’ project (5 mins):
Read an article by Joy, Karen and others on student-staff partnerships, here:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/link/volume-2,-issue-2/student-staff-partnership-in-learning-and-teaching
