Section One: Power and Politics

This section, with an introduction written by Associate Professor Huang Hoon Chng, traverses gritty issues relating to the role of power and politics in shaping—from within and without—student-staff partnership in higher education.
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa2.1.0
In This Section
- Chapter 1: The P.O.W.E.R. FrameworkRoselynn Verwoord and Heather Smith
- Chapter 2: From Novelty to NormSean Wilson, Julie Phillips, Helen Meskhidze, Claire Lockard, Peter Felten, Susannah McGowan, and Stephen Bloch-Schulman
- Chapter 3: Unlearning Hierarchies and Striving for Relational DiversityRachel Guitman, Anita Acai, and Lucy Mercer-Mapstone
- Chapter 4: Power, Partnership, and RepresentationAbbi Flint and Hannah Goddard
- Chapter 5: Partnership as a Civic ProcessIsabella Lenihan-Ikin, Brad Olsen, Kathryn A. Sutherland, Emma Tennent, and Marc Wilson
Discussion Questions
- How might systemic societal power in terms of privilege and oppression (for example, racism, sexism, hetero-normativity) play out in or impact your partnership practices?
- What unlearning might you need to do to be a more effective partner?
- How could partnership in higher education contribute to the power and politics of society beyond our institutions?