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Student engagement in teaching and learning: Like eating your broccoli?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

I recently completed my PhD at the University of Queensland where in 2017 I was also the Project Co-Lead on the collaborative design of a university-wide student-staff partnership program. I have just come back from the student engagement conference, RAISE 2018 , and my mind is still buzzing with new ideas.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

The college maintains its commitment to principles such as integrity, peace, social justice, and community engagement, which shape both its academic and extracurricular life. The college places a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary learning, allowing students to engage in cross-disciplinary courses and independent research.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Our course – Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging in Current Research – is one of several courses at Edinburgh trying something different. One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al., Moreover, several our students take work-based dissertation options for their Master’s thesis or volunteer to work in NGO or on other non-profit causes.