Collaboration Uncovered: The Forgotten, the Assumed, and the Unexamined in Collaborative Education

by Merle Richards, Anne Elliott, Vera Woloshyn, Coral Mitchell

Overview

University faculty members describe their collaborative projects with other faculty members, rsearchers, graduate students, professional educators, and other stakeholders in the educational enterprise. Through descriptions of several collaborative projects, the chapters explore some of the less explicitly articulated aspects of collaborative ventures.

The authors use a variety of conceptual frameworks, derived from a number of disciplines including education and business, to deconstruct collaboration and to further undernstand its elements, issues, dynamics, and problematics. By confronting the challenges of building genuine and effective collaborative partnerships across institutions and cultures and by examining how the personal and the professional intertwine within the process, the book extends and deepens the dialogue about such partnerships. Collaboration is presented as a deeply personal and professionally challenging enterprise that offers satisfaction and enrichment when it is undertaken with eyes and minds wide open.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897897846
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/2001
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)

About the Author

MERLE RICHARDS is Associate Professor, Preservice Department, Faculty of Education, Brock University.

ANNE ELLIOTT is Associate Professor, Preservice Department, Faculty of Education, Brock University.

VERA WOLOSHYN is Associate Professor, Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Brock University.

CORAL MITCHELL is Associate Professor, Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, Brock University.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Anne Elliott
The Forgotten
What Is This Thing Called Nagotiation? Exploring the Concept in Education by Joyce B. Castle and Susan Sydor
Negotiating Agendas in Collaborative Research by Coral Mitchell
Negotiating Across Cultures by Merle Richards
Co-operative Versus Collaborative Research: Assessing the Difference by Andrea Toepell
The Assumed
Is Collaboration in the Classroom Possible? by Karen Krug
Searching for Collaboratibe Balance: Negotiating Roles in School-University Partnership Research by Linda L. Lang
A Committee with Commitment by Jessie Lees and Vianne Timmons
The Unexamined
Collaborative Mentoring: Insights from a University Research Centre by Alice Schutz and Sharon Abbey
Collaboration: A Vehicle for Professional Development by Anne Elliott and Vera Woloshyn
Mentoring Graduate Students through Involvement in Faculty Research by Susan Gibson, Dianne Oberg, Rosemarie Pelz, and Dough Zook
University Researcher's Collaborative Experiences: A Gender Analysis by Merle Richards and Nancy Murray
Not Just Smooth Sailing: Issues in Collaboration by Alice Schutz, Nancy Murray, Vera Woloshyn, Anne Elliott, Norah Morgan, and Bev Haskins

Editorial Reviews

Instructors and graduate students in education (many, like the four editors, are at Brock U., St. Catharines, Ontario) offer essays that sing the praises of collaboration in teaching and research. The individual experiences of some of the writers, and case studies researched by others provide material for most of the essays. Several of the essays are more theoretical in content, considering issues of gender, mentoring, and professional development. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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