Socially Just Student-Staff Partnerships: �Toward a collective theory of �multi-institutional organisational change �in the Global South

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Team

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Xena (staff - project lead)

Zweli (student - research assistant)

Deidre (student - instructional designer)

Asanda (staff - academic coach)

University of the Western Cape

Sue (staff - project lead)

Ashleigh (student - research assistant)

Lukhona (student - research assistant)

University of Cape Town

Daniela (staff - project lead)

Tefo (student- research assistant)

Essai - student - student - (research assistant)

Joe - Dean - student -(Student assistant)

https://www.cput.ac.za/dsjp/programme/partners

Background

• Student Movements (RMF, FMF)
• Radically challenged the status quo
• Challenging who teaches, what is being taught and where teaching happens
• Intention to do things differently
• Importance of student voice
• Desire / commitment to more socially just pedagogies
• How would that look like?

Sethembile Msezane, Chapungu, 2015, Archival Pigment on Cotton Rag, 111.8 x 91.8 cm, Edition of 8. University of Cape Town. © 2015- UNISA Art Collection

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The shift from SaP to SSPs - from a Global South perspective

STUDENTS

AS

PARTNERS

STUDENT-STAFF

PARTNERSHIPS

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STUDENT

ENGAGEMENT

02

03

Level of shared ownership and participation

Our Project

A Global South Perspective

Guiding Principles

• Principles developed in the first co-created project(2019)
• A set of 9 principles to guide practice
• Focus on the right people, intention, capabilities, recognition, trust, respect and affirmation

Emerging Values

Any questions?

The Designing for Social Justice Partnership Programme (DSJP) is a UCDP Collab initiative funded by the Department for Higher Education and Training. It is a collaboration between the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town. For more info visit https://www.cput.ac.za/dsjp/programme/home/about or email dsjp@cput.ac.za