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Learning and Working Together: Students as Peers and Partners

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Focuses on approaches which enable students to learn with and from one another within and beyond the curriculum. It considers students as partners in co-curricular projects.

The original version of this chapter was revised: For detailed information please see Erratum. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54552-3_8

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    Kay Sambell

  2. Emerita Professor, Leeds Beckett University and Independent consultant, Newcastle, UK

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  3. Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

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Sambell, K., Brown, S., Graham, L. (2017). Learning and Working Together: Students as Peers and Partners. In: Professionalism in Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54552-3_4

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