Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword: Student Engagement is Hard Work, but Quality Takes Time. Section 1: Introduction to Student Engagement in Higher Education. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Student Engagement in Higher Education. Chapter 2: Creating Relationships between Students, Staff and Universities for Student Engagement in Educational Developments. Chapter 3: "I am part of the university": Why Universities Offering Non-Traditional Students Extracurricular Opportunities Leads to Higher Levels of Student Engagement - A Mature Student's Perspective. Chapter 4: Theory and Principles Underpinning Students Engaged in Educational Developments: SEEDs for the Future. Chapter 5: The Changing Nature and Importance of Student Representation. Chapter 6: Student Engagement in Evaluation: Expanding Perspectives and Ownership. Section 2: International Perspectives of Theory into Practice. Chapter 7: Student Engagement through Classroom-Focused Pedagogical Partnership: A Model and Outcomes from the United States. Chapter 8: From the 'Micro' to the 'Mega': Toward a Multi-Level Approach to Supporting and Assessing Student-Staff Partnership. Chapter 9: A students as partners approach to developing a work-integrated learning program for science. Chapter 10: Going beyond Student Voice through Meta-Level Education Transformation. Chapter 11: Critically reflecting on identities, particularities, and relationships in student engagement. Section 3: Models of Student Engagement in Practice. Chapter 12: Trust me, working alone is challenging. What are the benefits of working in partnership in higher education? Chapter 13: The amplification of student voices via institutional research and evaluation. Chapter 14: On the Origin of Student Fellows: Reflections on the Evolution of Partnership from Theory to Practice. Chapter 15: Empowering Students as Champions in Technology Enhanced Learning to Improve Digital Literacies. Chapter 16: Empowering students to enhance education at their university. Chapter 17: Students as Partners and Peer Coaches in Student Engagement: Themes from PASS Scheme Biographies. Chapter 18: Student partners as digital change agents. Chapter 19: Scholarship as student engagement in college higher education. Section 4: The Future of Student Engagement. Chapter 20: Who defines success in Higher Education? A student perspective on the future of student engagement. Chapter 21: From then to now in student engagement - an academic's perspective. Chapter 22: Higher Education Institutions and Policy Makers: The Future of Student Engagement. Chapter 23: Student Engagement for Educational Developments.
