Promoting active student participation

The handbook 'An Active Student Participation Companion' provides teachers and students with a background to ASP as a pedagogical field as well as concrete tips and tools for how teachers and students can work with ASP in their teaching.

ASP means that students, in collaboration with teachers, are active co-creators in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the programme. ASP includes:

1. Concrete tools and methods that can be used in teaching to invite students to take greater responsibility for their own learning.
2. Teaching-related student influence through students actively contributing to and influencing how different elements of the teaching are organised. This is a form of informal student influence. Formal student influence at Uppsala University takes place mainly through student representation in various preparatory and decision-making bodies.
   
3. A kind of approach to students and teachers' roles in higher education. The approach means that students and teachers are regarded as mutual partners in teaching, where both perspectives, knowledge and experience are seen as contributing factors to high quality teaching.

Work on ASP is mainly carried out by teachers and students at local level, in the courses and programmes offered by the institutions. There are many good examples of ASP at the university to be inspired by.

The Unit for University Pedagogy supports the work at the departments by having pedagogical developers offer guidance and tips for teachers and students who want to work with ASP. We do this mainly by offering consultative expertise. Please book a meeting with us if you are interested in starting to work with or develop ASP at your institution.