This week's Tea(ching) Break is a blog that is part of a special collection celebrating the centenary of Paulo Freire’s birth. The author of Classrooms as a Space for Imagination and Hope uses critical pedagogy as an entry point to explore how to create educational spaces in higher education that enable students to make meaningful contributions to research and society, and how traditional student teacher positions can be challenged through partnership. By re-considering the relationship between undergraduate teaching and academic research, he wants to re-establish the university as a place for collaboration between students and academics with the common purpose to co-create knowledge and meaning.