Pedagogic partnership in higher education: encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing

Hill, Jennifer; Healey, Ruth L.; West, Harry; D�ry, Chantal

Abstract

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help students to recognize and work with their emotions in their learning in a positive manner. As such, pedagogic partnerships offer opportunities to promote resilience and enhance student wellbeing. In this paper, we develop partnership research in three ways by: 1) considering the ways in which pedagogic partnership may support students to encounter emotions and empower them to develop resilience, leading to positive wellbeing; 2) exploring how this process might be achieved in the disciplinary context of geography; and 3) developing an evidence-based model to summarize the potential effect of pedagogic partnership in enhancing student wellbeing. We draw upon two case studies of student-faculty and student-student pedagogic partnership within geography curricula in order to evidence that emotional awareness in learning comes through the joys and struggles of working in partnership. We argue that pedagogic partnership may be developed to support the wellbeing of modern-day higher education communities.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 15, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Apr 17, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 18, 2020
• Journal: Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Print ISSN: 0309-8265
• Electronic ISSN: 1466-1845
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 167-185
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1661366
• Keywords: pedagogic partnership, emotions, wellbeing, academic resilience, geography, borderland space
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/848742
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1661366
• Contract Date: Apr 17, 2019