Students’ Role in Academic Development: Patterns of Partnership in Higher Education

Academic development becomes a central strategy to help universities be suitable settings for XXI century education. However, academic development itself needs to adjust to a new post-pandemic reality and new ways of learning. In this regard, engaging students has been targeted in several areas of research on educational quality, assessment and evaluation, as well as institutional change in Higher Education. This paper focuses more specifically on the students’ role in academic development. Firstly, we aim at offering an overview of current patterns found in the literature, of good practices of the student-teacher partnership in academic development in HEIs, and how different approaches might be integrated. Secondly, we propose a model for student-teacher partnerships in academic development as a sustainable and inclusive approach towards participatory democracy in higher education.