Making sense of academia–industry cooperative teaching

Based on our experience, we present the sporadic, complementary, bi-relational, and tri-relational approaches to academia–industry cooperative teaching. We suggest the tri-relational approach, in which the relations do not simply refer to how the teachers’ expertise and actions interrelate but also to how the teachers’ expertise and knowledge relate to student knowledge. Without a tri-relational account of cooperative teaching, the process will generally ignore the required integration and communication, which instead will be minimised or marginalised and thus fail to focus on how knowledge is presented to students in relationally constitutive ways.

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