{"id":1669,"date":"2015-01-20T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2015-02-16T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:08:12","slug":"durham-blackboard-conference-2015-abbi-flint-keynote-engagement-through-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2015\/01\/20\/durham-blackboard-conference-2015-abbi-flint-keynote-engagement-through-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Blackboard Conference 2015 Abbi Flint Keynote &#8211; Engagement through partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Engagement Through Partnership &#8211; Abbi Flint<\/h1>\n<p>Abbi started her keynote discussing the framework that the Higher Education Academy launched regarding students as partners. Below are my rough notes from the presentation combined with Dr Rebecca Gill&#8217;s more comprehensible notes!<br \/>\nFostering partnership &#8211; it&#8217;s a strong way to increase student engagement &#8211; growing topic recently.<\/p>\n<h3>What do we mean by partnership?<\/h3>\n<p>Definition(s) of partnership:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partnership isn\u2019t interchangeable with student engagement, but is a specific form of it. It is a movement away from the assumption that students aren\u2019t initially engaged, and emphasises shared responsibility of students and staff, students and staff as \u2018co-learners\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Defined partnership as a process; the form of a project may not necessarily be one of partnership, but partnership is established for example by giving students autonomy and an active role in producing research, disseminating outputs and finding solutions.<\/li>\n<li>It is contextual (specific to institution, discipline and wider culture), therefore an ideal model is impossible to produce.<\/li>\n<li>Partnership can encompass cooperation between students as well as staff-student interactions. Embedding students within an academic community is central to student retention and success.<\/li>\n<li>Emphasis on understanding the expertise students can offer as pedagogic consultants in curriculum design: staff provide disciplinary expertise, students are experts on the curriculum as experienced in practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Specific form of student engagement &#8211; student engagement &#8211; is this a buzzword? So many different meanings when looking at the published research.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;color: #41a62a\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1672\" alt=\"Evernote Snapshot 20150106 110638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110638-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110638-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110638-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110638.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. What does partnership with students mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>2 why are you interested in partnership in teaching and learning?<\/p>\n<h3>Why are you interested in partnership in teaching and learning?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;color: #41a62a\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1674\" alt=\"Evernote Snapshot 20150106 110143\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110143-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110143-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-110143.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pedagogically powerful approach &#8211; deeper learning, sense of community.<\/p>\n<p>Behavioural perspective &#8211; something that they see and do. How often do students engage in study? A lot of research around this.<\/p>\n<p>Psychological perspective &#8211; how are students engaging cognitively? \u00a0What is their sense of community?<\/p>\n<p>Social cultural &#8211; how does the culture of the institution affect student engagement?<\/p>\n<p>Active participation is relevant across all perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Learning relationship as well as a working relationship. Students learning as part of the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Highly contextual &#8211; this is about people and their particular context.<\/p>\n<p>Partnership values-<br \/>\nAuthenticity, inclusivity, reciprocity, empowerment, trust, challenge, community, responsibility. (these are in HEA documentation)<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1673\" style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\" alt=\"Evernote Snapshot 20150106 111209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-111209-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-111209-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-111209-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-111209.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>Examples<\/h5>\n<p>Learning and teaching assessment<br \/>\nFlipping the classroom<br \/>\nPersonalisation of learning<br \/>\nPeer education<br \/>\nActive and collaborative learning<br \/>\nBroad vision (University of Westminster)<br \/>\nSubject based research and inquiry<br \/>\nEmbedding research and inquiry based learning<br \/>\nStudent as producer &#8211; University of Lincoln<br \/>\nBoutique UG research schemes<br \/>\nThink Ahead: SURE<br \/>\nThese examples still need to be considered within the process. Examples above aren&#8217;t necessarily partnership, but the process needs to be considered.<br \/>\nScholarship of teaching and learning<br \/>\nStudents are often the focus rather than the partners of any research.<\/p>\n<h5>Institutional examples<\/h5>\n<p>University of Exeter &#8211; voluntary scheme where student research their teaching and learning environments and report outcomes to the staff student committee in their School. This has had high impact.<\/p>\n<p>Curriculum design and pedagogic consultancy<br \/>\nStudents often surveyed at the end of their course, but not often consulted at course design \/ approval stages.<br \/>\nThis is one of the more challenging aspects of partnership. Often institutions\/academics don&#8217;t want to give up any control in this area.<\/p>\n<p>How do we embed partnership beyond the discrete activities that goes on?<\/p>\n<h5>Case studies:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln student as producer model: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincoln.ac.uk\/home\/studyatlincoln\/discoverlincoln\/teachingandlearning\/studentasproducer\/\">https:\/\/www.lincoln.ac.uk\/home\/studyatlincoln\/discoverlincoln\/teachingandlearning\/studentasproducer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Exeter Students as Change Agents project: <a href=\"https:\/\/as.exeter.ac.uk\/projects\/changeagents\/\">https:\/\/as.exeter.ac.uk\/projects\/changeagents\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Tensions\/opportunities:<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1671\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\" alt=\"Evernote Snapshot 20150106 112830\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-112830-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-112830-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-112830-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2015\/01\/Evernote-Snapshot-20150106-112830.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Significant change to existing practice\/processes needed.<\/li>\n<li>Inclusivity and scale: who is able to participate?<\/li>\n<li>Power relationships and blurring identities: dominance of hierarchical relationships, access to resources. Experience of partnership in one context may have a problematic impact on hierarchical relationships elsewhere.\u00a0Partnerships can place staff and students in different roles.<\/li>\n<li>Reward &amp; recognition: staff motivated by paid job role, what motivates students? Need opportunity to be full members of partnership \u2013 ensure access to larger agendas and history of projects (e.g. induction &amp; \u2018outduction\u2019 of sabbatical officers) &#8211; students have a time limited engagement with their institution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Areas for further exploration<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pedagogies\u00a0of partnership: disciplinary research &#8211; are there disciplinary approaches to partnership?<\/li>\n<li>Sharing lot of successes but need to learn from failures. Where does it not work and why?<\/li>\n<li>Impact: longer term, explore potential ways of using existing institutional data more smartly to look at impact of partnership on broader learning experience.<\/li>\n<li>Ethical implications of engagement through partnership.<\/li>\n<li>How different student demographics engage with partnership\/levels of impact at different intersectionalities (e.g. gender, race, age).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Mick Healey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mickhealey.co.uk\/\">Mick Healey website<\/a> &#8211; case studies with students as change agents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engagement Through Partnership &#8211; Abbi Flint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228,227,229],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-abbi-flint","tag-durham-blackboard-conference","tag-external-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}