Critical Social Inquiry 0162 - Disrupting Higher Education?: "Student as Partners" in teaching and learning

Higher education institutions have long operated within structures and norms that position professors as experts and students as learners. In response, educators influenced by critical perspectives have sought to empower 'student voice' in the academy as a radical and transformative intervention. How can we understand these efforts in a post-truth, neoliberal education context in which notions of expertise are increasingly unsettled? We will examine case studies of SaP programs across U.S. and Australian colleges and universities to consider how socio-political and institutional contexts influence the creation and shape of these initiatives. At the relational level of partnership, we will explore the complexities of power-sharing between faculty and students, especially in the context of evolving attacks on the academy, and how positionality (with regard to race, gender, first gen college, etc) influences the lived experience of partnership Keywords:education, higher education, policy, teaching

In/Justice Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time