Promoting Equity and Justice Through Pedagogical Partnership (Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching)

Review\n"There are urgent and specific forms of violence faced by students from equity-seeking groups, practices that have led to harms that we, as educators and practitioners, are called on to redress. By synthesizing the literature on partnerships and post-secondary student equity, this essential text offers an invitation to reimagine how higher education can provide a collaborative space of engagement in which justice can be pursued."--Steven Volk "Co-Director, Great Lakes Colleges Association Consortium for Teaching & Learning, and Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College"\n"This is the book we have been waiting for. It provides a paradigmatic shift in understanding the relationships between partnership and equity and justice. From the moving account in the preface of the healing experienced by one Afro-Latino student during the course of her engagement in a partnership program; through the development and application of a powerful conceptual framework for understanding the violences and resulting harms that marginalized students face in higher education; to the insightful case studies, reflections, and recommendations focused on how pedagogical partnership can redress the harms equity-seeking groups experience; this book carries the reader forward with passion and care." --Ruth and Mick Healey "Healey HE Consultants, UK"\nFaculty and staff in higher education are looking for ways to address the deep inequity and systemic racism that pervade our colleges and universities. Pedagogical partnership can be a powerful tool to enhance equity, inclusion, and justice in our classrooms and curricula. These partnerships create opportunities for students from underrepresented and equity-seeking groups to collaborate with faculty and staff to revise and reinvent pedagogies, assessments, and course designs, positioning equity and justice as core educational aims. When students have a seat at the table, previously unheard voices are amplified, and diversity and difference introduce essential perspectives that are too often overlooked.
In particular, the book contributes to the literature on pedagogical partnership and equity in education by integrating theory, synthesizing research, and providing concrete examples of the ways partnership can contribute to more equitable educational systems. At the same time, the authors acknowledge that partnership can only realize its full potential to redress harms and promote equity and justice when thoughtfully enacted. This book is a resource that will inspire and challenge a wide variety of higher education faculty and staff and contribute to advancing both practice and research on the potential of student-faculty pedagogical partnerships.
Presenting a conceptual framework for understanding the various epistemological, affective, and ontological harms that face students from equity-seeking groups in postsecondary education, Promoting Equity and Justice Through Pedagogical Partnership applies this conceptual framework to current literature in partnerships, highlighting the promise of partnership as the way to redress these harms.
The authors ground both the conceptual framework and the literature review by offering two case studies of pedagogical partnership in practice. They then explore the complexities raised by their framework, including the conditions under which partnerships themselves may risk reproducing epistemic, affective, or ontological harms. Applying the framework in this way allows them to propose strategies that make it more likely for these mediations to be successful.
Finally, the authors focus on the future of pedagogical partnership and share their perspectives on new directions for inquiry and practice. After summarizing the overarching themes developed throughout the book, the authors leave the reader with a set of questions and recommendations for further inquiry and discussion.