Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning - Paperback

by Carmen Werder (Editor), Megan M. Otis (Editor)

This book addresses the all-important dimensions of collaboration in the study of learning raised by such questions as: Should teachers engage students directly in discussions and inquiry about learning? To what extent? What is gained by the collaboration?

Author Biography

Carmen Werder directs the Teaching-Learning Academy at Western Washington University, where she also teaches rhetoric and directs Writing Instruction Support. As a Carnegie Scholar, she initiated an ongoing study of the use of personal metaphors in developing a sense of agency. She has headed up both CASTL initiatives on working with students as co-inquirers in the scholarship of teaching and learning: the Sustaining Student Voices cluster (2003-06) and the current Institutional Leadership Program Student Voices themed group (2006-09). Megan M. Otis is a graduate student in anthropology at Western Washington University. She has been an active participant in WWU's SoTL initiative, the Teaching-Learning Academy (as both an undergraduate and graduate student), and has been deeply involved in the CASTL Student Voices group. Pat Hutchings