Co-Creating Equitable Teaching and Learning
Structuring Student Voice into Higher Education
Alison Cook-Sather, Foreword by Elena Marcovici
paper, 240 Pages
Pub. Date: November 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-68253-771-8
Price: $37.00
Add to Cart
E-book
Pub. Date: November 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-68253-772-5
Price:
Add to Cart
Co-Creating Equitable Teaching and Learning invites readers to help forge a more inclusive and accessible college education by incorporating student voices via pedagogical partnerships.
Alison Cook-Sather, a pioneer of this co-creative approach, draws on more than twenty years of experience developing student–teacher partnerships in higher education to offer a wise and generous work that speaks to both students and educators. As her research underscores, a co-creative learning environment, in which relationships and communication between students and teachers are prioritized, benefits the educational experience on many levels.
Cook-Sather demonstrates how pedagogical partnerships give students the tools to advocate for their own learning while giving educators the feedback they need to improve classroom experiences. She shows how the co-creative model helps to bring about inclusive spaces and equitable teaching practices that better foster student success, especially among underrepresented and minority student populations.
Offering actionable guidance, Cook-Sather advocates enacting the following four principles to structure student voice into higher education: embracing a commitment to equity and justice; providing structure rather than prescriptions for engagement; making rather than taking up space; and developing a partnership mindset. She grounds these principles in examples of practices drawn from an undergraduate education course; a faculty development program; and cross-disciplinary, cross-constituency institutional dialogues.
This work calls for readers to reimagine the higher education structure and to cultivate an environment in which all stakeholders can work together to advance inclusivity, accessibility, and equity. As the author argues, co-creation can be a catalyst for change throughout the system.
Praise
To move the needle in higher education towards more equitable learning environments, we need to use strategies that demonstrate impact. Co-Creating Equitable Teaching and Learning highlights the critical importance of integrating student voices, a powerful approach that can lead to transformation at the course through the institutional level.
— Tracie Marcella Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning, Lafayette College
This important book reimagines equitable teaching in higher education. Cook-Sather uses deep research and personal stories to show that students can—and should—be positioned as partners with faculty, staff, and administrators in co-constructing inclusive teaching and learning at the course, program, and institutional levels. As Cook-Sather demonstrates, student voice is essential to co-creating equity and justice in higher education.
— Peter Felten, Center for Engaged Learning, Elon University, and co-author of Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College
Cook-Sather’s research has been both radically innovative and universally accessible. This new work offers a compelling argument for engaging practices of co-creation to implement a practice of equity and justice in higher education. It is essential reading for instructors, institutional leaders, and staff, as well as students.
— Steven S. Volk, Co-director, Consortium for Teaching and Learning, Great Lakes Colleges Association
Alison forefronts the student voice and offers compelling arguments to educators to invite students as teaching and learning design partners. More importantly, she centers her arguments on equity and justice, while reflecting on the process and products of co-creating partnerships. This book is a must-read for educators ready for the next big step in their teaching and curriculum design.
— Carol A. Hurney, Associate Provost, Faculty Development & Diversity, Colby College
More
Less
About the Author
Alison Cook-Sather is Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education and Director of the concentration in Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies at Bryn Mawr College, as well as Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.