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Co-creation in learning and teaching

The case for a whole-class approach in higher education

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ID23328481
AuthorsCatherine Bovill (0000-0002-2745-3072, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume79
Issue6
Pages1023-1037
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHigher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-1560 • E-ISSN: 1573-174X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10734-019-00453-w
OpenAlexW2989878405
LanguageEN
Citations received102
References cited29

There is a wide range of activity in the higher education sector labelled ‘students as partners’ and ‘co-creation in learning and teaching’. Several frameworks have been proposed to map and categorise existing partnership and co-creation roles, activities, research, and practice. In this paper, I synthesise some of these frameworks to illustrate how the predominant focus in the international literature has been on partnership projects that select small groups of often already super-engaged or privileged students to participate. In contrast, co-creation in learning and teaching, embedded within the curriculum and involving a whole class of students, has been largely overlooked. I explore the potential of co-creating learning and teaching with a whole class of students (including face-to-face, blended, and online settings, and including lectures, tutorials, laboratories, and other methods of teaching); in other words, it is co-creation integral to students’ programmes and courses of study. I argue that whole-class approaches to co-creation may be inherently more inclusive of students than other approaches to co-creation and that this approach both relies upon, and contributes towards, building positive relationships between staff and students, and between students and students. I explore some of the challenges of whole-class co-creation in learning and teaching, and I also argue that the benefits suggest this is currently an underutilised and researched approach internationally.

Class (philosophy) · Curriculum · Face (sociological concept) · General partnership · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Teaching method · Computer Science · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology

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