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by derek bruff, cft director<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>as i announced last month<\/a>, this year many of the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分’s workshops, conversations, and other resources for the vanderbilt teaching community will be part of our “students as producers”<\/strong> theme. i first heard the term “student as producer” in a keynote by the university of lincoln’s mike neary<\/a> at a 2011 conference in ireland<\/a>. mike is dean of teaching and learning at lincoln and directs the student as producer<\/a> initiative there. he argued that students should move from being the object of the educational process to its subject. students should not be merely consumers of knowledge but producers, engaged in meaningful, generative work alongside the university’s faculty.<\/p>\n

from the student as producer website at the university of lincoln:<\/p>\n

student as producer is a development of the university of lincoln\u2019s policy of research-informed teaching to research-engaged teaching. research-engaged teaching involves more research and research-like activities at the core of the undergraduate curriculum… in this way students become part of the academic project of the university and collaborators with academics in the production of knowledge and meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

students are frequently involved in knowledge production at vanderbilt outside of the classroom, through undergraduate research<\/a> and internships<\/a>. and our students take on “producer” roles in student organizations<\/a> and entrepreneurial activities<\/a>–again, outside the classroom. what appealed to me about the university of lincoln’s initiative, and what i look forward to exploring with the vanderbilt community this year, is the involvement of students as producers inside<\/em> the classroom, that is, within the confines of a standard semester-long course.<\/p>\n

what does it look like when students take on producer roles in a course? it varies greatly across different kinds of courses and across the disciplines. that’s why we’ve included several related terms in our theme-year logo: students as scholars, creators, researchers, performers, designers. we might have included innovators, authors, and problem solvers to that list. the idea of students as producers plays out differently in different contexts. here are just a few examples of courses that feature “production” activities, all highlighted here on the cft website in the past:<\/p>\n