Through my college experience and my reflection on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered, I have come to recognize several ideas that have greatly impacted me, my views on learning, and my actual learning. My overall experience in college has been beneficial because of the teachers who approached teaching with a more conscious…

This article deals with the issue of how to establish an authentic community of inquiry. I propose the introduction of a distinction between two stages of the community of inquiry: the stage of an emergent community of inquiry and the stage of an established community of inquiry. Further on, I propose an analysis of the structure of intentions and…

In this article, the author cites the ways in which music educators are so much blessed. They are blessed because they acquire new insights and knowledge from their students. Students contribute so much to the richness of their teachers' lives by providing them with the opportunity to share their knowledge. She also reminds music educators that…

The "patient" metaphor still thrives in teaching. Carl Rogers' concept of client, connoting a collaborative rather than directive relationship, may be more useful to conceptualize the relationship between teachers and students. (SK)

Proposes the metaphor of professional/client rather than student-as-customer to characterize the relationship between professors and students. Uses examples of fitness trainer, management consultant, accounting service, and mountain guide to illustrate faculty and student roles. (SK)

Discusses recent use by scholars of the term "negotiation" in critical discussions of teaching writing to talk about how students might have a hand in shaping the world of difference of which they are part. Advocates discussing not only positive associations but also negative associations of negotiation, thinking about political and…

Conceiving of students as clients views teaching as a hierarchical one-way or buyer/seller relationship. Promotion of learning in a sacred relationship between teachers and students implies ways of being and habits of mind more conducive to emancipatory, empowering education. (SK)

In nursing education, the curricular focus is shifting from objectives, outcomes, and evaluation to reflection, intuition, and praxis. Active learning, requiring a higher level of maturity, emphasizes constructing new knowledge and meaning, empowering students to take charge of their experience. (SK)

It is argued that the student and faculty advisor must work together to provide direction for independent study and ensure its success. The role of student and advisor are explored, suggestions for planning for independent studies are provided, and a step-by-step guide for directing them is proposed. (MSE)

Explains how a teacher engages students in conversations about the teaching of writing and the use of portfolio assessment. Contains student input on a number of assessment criteria: range, flexibility, connectedness, independence, and conventions. (TB)

The college student who participates in genuine collaboration with a faculty member in an intellectual endeavor transcends the barrier of power. Once it has been breached, other power lines will be less constraining. The experience transforms the nature of learning and constructs a lasting authority in the student. (MSE)

Based on the Situational Leadership Model, the Staged Self-Directed Learning Model categorizes learners (dependent, interested, involved, self-directed) and teachers (authority, motivator, facilitator, delegator). Good teaching matches learners' stage, and teaching difficulties arise from mismatches. The model can apply to curricula, courses, and…

Reviews the debate over teachers' exercise of power and authority. Argues the need to recognize the different forms in which teachers exercise power and students achieve real agency. Analyzes the means by which pedagogical work is "capitalized." (NH)

An important ethical task is for the college faculty member to handle the teacher-student relationship well outside the classroom. May Sarton's novel "The Small Room" depicts both success and failure. The teacher should always act as a friend, seeking the good of the student for the student's own sake and recognizing this as a unique…

A legal educator's account (HE) of an attempt to introduce feminism into a legal research and writing course is criticized for its portrayal of the students as inexperienced know-nothings and the instructor as knowledge-holder, his use of women's endorsements for legitimacy, and his depiction of feminist students as uncooperative. (MSE)