The power and promise of collaborative teaching: crossing boundaries in a higher education classroom

ABSTRACT

This paper describes an example of collaborative teaching between a university professor and a community advocate with lived experience with the criminal justice system. Inspired by bell hooks’ concept of boundary crossing, we describe the course logistics and the possibilities that collaborative teaching holds to challenge traditional notions of justice and power in the university classroom.

KEYWORDS:

• Collaborative teaching
• bell hooks
• health
• justice

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the students.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.