A Dyadic Analysis of Pedagogical Partnerships: Exploring Alignment and Misalignment in Students-as-Partners Relationships

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Title: A Dyadic Analysis of Pedagogical Partnerships: Exploring Alignment and Misalignment in Students-as-Partners Relationships
Language: English
Authors: Kristen V. Luschen, Sarah L. Bunnell, J. Riley Caldwell-O'Keefe, Eugene Lee
Source: International Journal for Students as Partners. 2026 10(1).
Availability: McMaster University Library Press. McMaster University Library, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S $L6 Canada. e-mail: scom@mcmaster.ca; Web site: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 22
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Alignment (Education), Power Structure, Outcomes of Education, College Students, College Faculty, Participative Decision Making
Geographic Terms: Massachusetts
Abstract: A substantive body of literature demonstrates the transformative power of pedagogical partnership. In this study, we explore the relational dynamics that underpin pedagogical partnership. Informed by thematic analyses of reflections from 3 years of faculty-student partnerships, we present three pedagogical partnership relational typologies--bidirectional, sounding board, and affirmational. We then share a dyadic analysis exploring partners' alignment or misalignment in their views of their relationship and explore the associations between relational typology, alignment, and partnership outcomes. We find that student partners were more likely to perceive their partnerships as bidirectional, while faculty partners were more likely to perceive their relationships as sounding boards. Further, student and faculty partners in bidirectional partnerships were most likely to reap individual, relational, and curricular partnership outcomes. Our discussion highlights implications of relational alignment for pedagogical partnership outcomes and the need to attend to relationality, power hierarchies, and partner identities in pedagogical partnership programs.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1501173
Database: ERIC
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