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Students as Change Agents: A selected bibliography
Mick Healey
HE Consultant and Researcher, Emeritus Professor University of Gloucestershire
mhealey@glos.ac.uk
www.mickhealey.co.uk
This series of bibliographies was first begun in 2005 and has been gradually added to over the
years:
1 Active learning and learning styles: a selected bibliography
2 Discipline based approaches to supporting learning and teaching: a selected
bibliography
3 Linking research and teaching: a selected bibliography
4 Pedagogic research and development: a selected bibliography
5 The scholarship of teaching and learning: a selected bibliography
6 The scholarship of engagement: a selected bibliography
7 Dissertations and capstone projects: a selected bibliography
8 Students as change agents: a selected bibliography
For the latest versions see: http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources
An Invitation: Readers are encouraged to send details of their own favourite references for
adding to the list to me at: mhealey@glos.ac.uk. Thanks. Readers new to the topic may find it
helpful to start with the references marked with a *
Acknowledgements:
Many of these references come from a longer list kindly provided by Cath Bovill (Glasgow)
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Bols, A and Freeman, R (2011) Engaging students in shaping their curriculum, Educational
Developments 12(2), 5-9
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Bovill, C, Aitken, G, Hutchisonc, J, Morrisond, F, Roseweire, K, Scott, A and Sotanndeg , S (2010)
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professional education, International Journal for Academic Development. 15(2), 143–154
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curriculum design: perspectives from the literature, Teaching in Higher Education 16(2),
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Bovill, C, Morss, K and Bulley, C (2009) Should students participate in curriculum design?
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Pedagogic Research in Maximizing Education 3(2) 17-26.
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* Bovill, C, Cook-Sather, A, and Felten, P (2011) Students as co-creators of teaching approaches,
course design, and curricula: implications for academic developers, International Journal for
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Campbell, F, Beasley, L, Eland, J & Rumpus, A (2007) Hearing the student voice: promoting and
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learning, teaching and assessment within higher education. Project Report for Escalate
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Campbell, F, Eland, J, Rumpus, A and Shacklock, R (2009) Hearing the student voice: involving
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Cook-Sather, A. (2002) Authorizing students’ perspectives: toward trust, dialogue, and change in
education, Educational Researcher, 31(4), 3-14
Cook-Sather, A. (2006) Sound, presence, and power: exploring ‘student voice’ in educational
research and reform, Curriculum Inquiry 36(4), 359-390
Cook-Sather, A. (2009). Learning from the student’s perspective: a sourcebook for effective
teaching. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
Cook-Sather, A. (2010) Students as learners and teachers: taking responsibility, transforming
education, and redefining accountability, Curriculum Inquiry, 40 (4), 555-575
Cook-Sather, A. (2011). Layered learning: student consultants deepening classroom and life
lessons, Educational Action Research, 9(1), 41–57
* Cook-Sather, A. (2011) Students as learners and teachers: college faculty and undergraduates
co-create a professional development model, To Improve the Academy, 29, 219-232
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learning and teaching in higher education, Anthropology Education Quarterly 42(1)
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* Coppola, B P (2007) The most beautiful theories, 2006 James Flack Norris Award Address,
Journal of Chemical Education 84, 1902-1911 http://wwwpersonal.umich.edu/~bcoppola/publications/p1902.pdf
Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 33(1) Fall Special Issue (2012): Students as change
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Crawford, K (2012) Rethinking the student/teacher nexus: students as consultants on teaching in
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(2010) (Eds.) Engaging student voices in the study of teaching and learning. Virginia: Stylus
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Dexter, B (2012) Co-creation of assessments: principles and practice, workshop presented at
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Dunne, E and Owen, D (2012) Students as researchers, paper presented at SEDA Spring Teaching
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* Dunne, E and Zandstra, R (2011) Students as change agents - new ways of engaging with
learning and teaching in higher education. Bristol: A joint University of
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Healey, M (2005) Linking research and teaching: exploring disciplinary spaces and the role of
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