The Niche
In our higher education ecosystem, we all play a role. Instructors teach
the course. Students learn and demonstrate their knowledge. We are not
naïve enough to think that
instructors and students are only teachers and learners, however; within
the neat confines of courses, it is easy to frame each other in this
way. Under the most ideal circumstances, students bring their life
experiences with them, as do instructors. Classrooms are not vacuums,
but rather conduits for the discourses, ideologies, and ways of being
that exist in our society. However, with the advent of the pandemic,
roles are being blurred. Students and instructors are having to embody
multiple roles at once, as they always did, but some roles are now being
heightened more than others due to the pandemic.