How Can Students as Partners Pedagogy Succeed When Not Actively Supported by the Institution and/or Goes Against Institutional Culture?

Abstract

In this reflective essay, we discuss the following questions that have emerged as a result of our (faculty and student) experiences with Student-Faculty Partnership Pedagogy at our institution: Can partnership succeed when not actively supported by the institution and/or goes against institutional culture? How do we make Students as Partners pedagogy to be institutional priority and part of its vision for the future? What sort of attitudes are necessary for faculty and students to have when engaging in pedagogical partnerships? Can such environments in which partnership is not an institutional culture and/or is not a widely accepted pedagogy still foster the development of such attitudes? What attitudes of the university leadership, as well as those of faculty and students are preventing partnerships from being supported more and, as a result, inhibit the sustainability of this pedagogy?