Skea, Claire (2022) Reconsidering Student Voice: Svankmajer's 'Dimensions of Dialogue' and the Claim to Community. In: The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope. Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (10). Springer, Singapore. ISBN 9789811652776
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This chapter will discuss the university’s potential to coerce and silence students while at the same time purporting to acknowledge ‘the student voice’. Attempts to ‘capture’ and collect the student voice are ineluctably linked to the student satisfaction agenda in Higher Education (HE), and such initiatives can be critiqued on a number of levels: they limit the ‘voice’ they purport to measure; the collection of voice is instrumental; and there is often a conflation of ‘voice’ with ‘feedback’ which is problematic. I draw a distinction here between the narrow, marketised conception of ‘voice’ currently employed in institutional measures of student voice, and a broader notion of voice as presented in the works of Stanley Cavell. I also draw connections between ‘voice’ in Cavell’s work, and the iterations of dialogue presented in a short film by Jan Švankmajer, Dimensions of Dialogue (1982). In reconsidering student voice, I argue that attending to ‘voice’ in a communal sense is necessary, but this should not come at the expense of individuals’ voices. Universities also need to allow more space for the renegotiation of criteria such that students are able to express their consent to, or dissent from, membership in that polis.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Claire Skea |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2021 11:29 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 11:59 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3414 |
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