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

by Merle Richards (Editor), Anne Elliott (Editor), Vera Woloshyn (Editor)

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.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2001

Reviews

[Apostolos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite an interesting collection of perspectives (and stories) about person-to-person collaboration in higher education. I think that you are looking for a book that deals with collaboration at the lower levels (i.e. not institution-to-institution) this might be a good book to read. I think the authors do a good job with the book in that it focuses on people, not technology, so it doesn't feel dated.