ABSTRACT
Drawing on scholarship as well as established practice, A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education is a sector-leading volume that unpacks the concept of student engagement. It provides ideas and examples alongside compelling theory- and research-based evidence to offer a thorough and innovative exploration of how students and staff can work together to genuinely transform the higher education learning experience.
Providing readers with evidence from successfully embedded schemes, the book uses case studies and practical, workable examples from a variety of international institutions. With the insight of world-leading contributors, it showcases what good practice looks like in higher education institutions across the globe. Simultaneously collating a wealth of contemporary research, this book creates vivid connections between theories and student engagement in higher education, with chapter topics including:
- Creating relationships between students, staff and universities
- Offering non-traditional students extracurricular opportunities
- Taking a students-as-partners approach
- Critically reflecting on identities, particularities and relationships
- The future of student engagement.
In a fast-developing and significantly shifting area, this book is essential reading for higher education managers and those working directly in the field of student engagement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|96 pages
Introduction to student engagement in higher education
chapter Chapter 3|7 pages
“I am a part of the university”
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
Theory and principles underpinning ‘students engaged in educational developments’
part II|58 pages
International perspectives of theory into practice
chapter Chapter 7|11 pages
Student engagement through classroom-focused pedagogical partnership
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
From the ‘micro’ to the ‘mega’
chapter Chapter 9|11 pages
A students-as-partners approach to developing a work-integrated learning program for science
chapter Chapter 11|7 pages
Critically reflecting on identities, particularities and relationships in student engagement
part III|90 pages
Models of student engagement in practice
chapter Chapter 12|7 pages
Trust me, working alone is challenging
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
The amplification of student voices via institutional research and evaluation
chapter Chapter 14|10 pages
On the origin of Student Fellows
chapter Chapter 15|11 pages
Empowering students as champions in technology enhanced learning (TEL) to improve digital literacies
chapter Chapter 17|11 pages
Students as partners and peer coaches in student engagement
part IV|53 pages
The future of student engagement