The strength of co-teaching informs educators’ understanding their own teaching practice and fosters a rediscovery passion for teaching. Instructors bring skills competencies to the relationship in ways that create an instructional dynamic greater than can be achieved individually. From mixed methods research design, instructors’ focus group interview data were examined with regard identifying elements influence successful experiences, factors impact development sustainability relationship,...

Purpose Student mental well-being is a matter of increasing concern on university campuses around the world. Social, psychological, academic and career aspects graduate learning are enriched through peer mentorship. Peer-mentoring experiences impacts these relationships students remain underexplored in scholarship teaching learning. The purpose this study was to explore how engagement formal informal mentorship, as described by across four disciplines, social connectedness students....

The objective of this study was to explore the role peer mentorship in facilitating graduate student resiliency, knowledge acquisition, and development academic competencies. We conducted a qualitative case study, using in-person interview data from sixty-two students recruited four professional faculties (Education, Medicine, Nursing, Social Work) at large Canadian University. identified broad themes derived thematic constant comparative analysis data: (1) sharing, (2) skills development,...

While cohesive teams are essential to advancing interdisciplinary research, few frameworks exist guide team development. In this article, eight academic women adopt a participatory process of inter-relational reflexivity reflect upon our research and propose best-practice framework for sustained effectiveness collaboration.

Background: The nursing workforce and education demographic trends reinforce the urgency to cultivate future leaders, educators, mentors. changing realities of health care environments, involving crowded student placements, overtaxed clinical mentors preceptors, inexperienced staff, hamper learning professional development. Peer mentoring has been used successfully in enhance engagement quality experience. Although various terms like peer mentor have describe role senior students...

Co-teaching has been explored in the field of education but is a relatively new phenomenon higher education. Its benefits and challenges are well documented; however, what lacking substantive evidence highlighting influence co-teaching amongst undergraduate students. Particularly, practice-based professions like teaching, nursing, social work, active participation collaborative teams more norm than exception. Undergraduate students need to have opportunities learn how be collaborative, as...

Abstract Although nursing seems to understand itself and its practice as complex, the literature is less clear about what this actually means. While complexity discussed an attribute of nursing, it also suggested that in remains misunderstood poorly articulated, devalued, not considered a measure health outcomes invisible. Despite overarching lack definition, some nurse scholars have conceptualized complex intervention. For these authors, becomes intervention defined which composed component...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine graduate student perspectives on common and unique roles peer mentors supervisors play in supporting success wellbeing during their program. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design involving semistructured interviews with 62 thesis-based masters doctoral students from four professional faculties, Education, Medicine, Nursing Social Work, at a large public research-intensive university Canada. Findings transcend disciplines...

Engaging students as pedagogical partners creates a brave space for to become critical thinkers and beings that shapes not just what they know, but also who are (Arao & Clemens, 2013; Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, 2011). The language of conveys tone engagement while proposing manner (Cook-Sather, 2016). transformative experience engaging in student-faculty partnership itself constitutes where learners transition from dependence on authority self-authorship (Baxter-Magolda, 2009, 2014)....

As the number of international students in higher education continues to grow, so do concerns regarding systemic obstacles, discrimination, and social isolation that can impede students’ academic success. Peer mentorship has been shown support graduate through socialization achievement (Lorenzetti et al., 2019). The purpose this study was explore transitional experiences students, extent which peer-mentoring relationships emotional well-being. Researchers interviewed 13 from 3 professional...

The transformative experience of engaged presence in teaching and learning fosters trust supports learners teachers to explore, learn, grow their understanding who they are becoming. Enacting becomes an act care creates embodied space for engage authentic enter the realm self-authorship. Self-authorship encourages cultivation one’s internal voice construct beliefs, identity, social relationships be able give up one way making meaning adopt a deeper (Baxter Magolda, 2009, 2014). This...


 Objective: To generate themes on facilitators and barriers for midwifery preceptorship.Methods: Midwifery preceptors in undergraduate education Canada were invited to participate in
 one of three focus groups. A constructivist paradigm reflexive thematic analysis approach was used responses that transcribed verbatim.
 Results: In September October 2020, groups took place comprising a total 16 preceptors. Participants represented multiple Canadian jurisdictions had range...

Background: Within academia, more than one measure of assessment is required to ensure teaching success and ongoing development. Peer the methods that can benefit development; however, there currently a lack nursing research literature regarding processes, outcomes, use self-reflection in peer process. In spring summer 2015, development implementation tailored pilot project self-assessment occurred within an undergraduate program at Western Canadian university. The overarching philosophy...

To understand the nature of student-faculty partnerships we began to explore literature on students and educators as pedagogical partners (Cook-Sather, Bovill, & Felten, 2011). What emerged was a strong alignment between our transformational partnership co-teachers in higher education how co-teaching practice has evolved influence relationships with students. Reflecting created space for us cross threshold embrace ‘radical collegiality’ (Fielding, 1999); not only through engaging full...

Collaborative partnerships between universities and colleges represent a new kind of synergism with potential to improve the quality nursing education ultimately patient care. These can also be challenging due difference in respective organizational cultures, institutional mandates, missions. There is lack research investigating faculty member experiences within collaborative partnerships. In this paper we report on members' experience offering shared integrated context-relevant...