Students as collaborators, partners and educators – moving the conversation forward

A meeting of the ADEE Community of Practice on Students as collaborators, partners and educators.

Working with ‘students as partners’ is gaining acceptance, and interest is shown in continuing to develop the concept. Dentistry has many topic areas that lends themselves to the use of these educational methodologies to the benefit of both staff and students.

Healey (2019) defined 4 areas of student engagement through partnership, namely teaching learning & assessment, subject based research, scholarship of teaching and learning, and curriculum design. In addition to updating delegates on last years’ progress on co-creation and peer assisted learning(PAL), this session will explore new areas of interest in relation to staff student partnerships.

The objectives are:

• To outline the developments in ‘Students as partners’ with particular reference to peer assisted learning, co-creation and students’ contribution to the wider environment
• To elicit delegates’ perspectives on students’ partnerships in research and assessment
• To consider the role of staff-student partnerships in relation to developing areas such topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion, and stress and resilience