Collaboration Uncovered

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.

Explores the deep dynamics of collaborative ventures in education, presenting evidence that, far from being a simple procedure, collaboration leads to personal and professional growth only when problematic issues are consistently acknowledged and addressed.

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Instructors and graduate students in education (many, like the four editors, are at Brock U., St. Catharines, Ontario) offer essays that sing the praises of collaboration in teaching and research. The individual experiences of some of the writers, and case studies researched by others provide material for most of the essays. Several of the essays are more theoretical in content, considering issues of gender, mentoring, and professional development. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

MERLE RICHARDS is Associate Professor, Preservice Department, Faculty of Education, Brock University.

ANNE ELLIOTT is Associate Professor, Preservice Department, Faculty of Education, Brock University.

VERA WOLOSHYN is Associate Professor, Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Brock University.

CORAL MITCHELL is Associate Professor, Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, Brock University.