Understanding and Developing Student Engagement

Enhancing the student experience, and in particular student engagement, has become a primary focus of Higher Education. It is in particularly sharp focus as Higher Education moves forward into the uncertain world of high student fees and a developed Higher Education market. Student engagement is a hot topic, in considering how to offer 'value' and a better student experience. Moreover it is receiving much attention all over the world and underpins so many other priorities such as retention, widening participation and improving student learning generally.Understanding and Developing Student Engagement draws from a range of contributors in a wide variety of roles in Higher Education and all contributors are actively involved in the Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Network.While utilising detailed case examples from UK universities, the authors also provide a critical review and distillation of the differing paradigms of Student Engagement in America, Australasia, South Africa and Europe, drawing upon key research studies and concepts from a variety of contexts.This book uncovers the multi-dimensional nature of student engagement, utilising case examples from both student and staff perspectives, and provides conceptual clarity and strong evidence about this rather elusive notion. It provides a firm foundation from which to discuss practices and policies that might best serve to foster engagement.

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Colin Bryson is Director of the Combined Honours Centre at Newcastle University, UK.

Inhalt

1. Clarifying the Concept of Student Engagement * Colin Bryson

• SECTION I - Students Engaging - perspectives from researchers

2. Nottingham Tales: Diverse Student Journeys through their Undergraduate Degrees * Colin Bryson and Christine Hardy

• 3. The Listening Project: Physiotherapy Students' Narratives of their Higher Education Experiences * Claire Hamshire and Christopher Wibberley
• 4. Engagement as Dynamic and Relational: Students' Accounts and Achievements over Time * Julie Wintrup

• SECTION II - Students Engaging - perspectives from students *

• 5. Experiences of Engagement: The Successes and Issues from a Student Perspective * Ruth Furlonger, Daniel Johnson and Beth Parker
• 6. Music to Listen to while Writing: Ludovico Einaudi or Amazing Piano Music * Sue Lund
• 7. Auto-ethnographic Writing and Student Engagement Practices: A Personal and Critical Reflection * Zoë Sarah Baker

8. People Can Make or Break Student Engagement * Emma Chadwyck *

9. Students as Researchers: Personal Reflections by Students of their Engagement in a Research Project * Viola Borsos, Christopher Demirjian, Ji Kim, Nga Wun Mok, Oliver Worsley, Christine Hardy and Sean Prince *

10. Cross-Cultural Experiences: Exploring Engagement as an International Postgraduate * Shanna Saubert *

11. The NTSU Outstanding Teaching Awards: Student Perspectives on Engagement * Ed Foster and Jo Southwell-Sander *

12. The Impact of Co-Curricular Activity on Student Engagement * Sarah Johnson, Rebecca Murphy and Sarah Parnham

• SECTION III - Engaging Students

13. 'What Matters in the End is to Act Well': Student Engagement and Ethics * Carol Taylor and Carol Robinson *

14. Academic Engagement: Engaging Who and to What End? * Sam Elkington *

15. Using Student Engagement Research to Improve the First Year Experience at a UK University * Ed Foster, Michaela Borg, Sarah Lawther, Jane McNeil & Ellie Kennedy *

16. Engaging Experienced Students as Academic Mentors in Support of the First Year Experience: The Epistemic Apprenticeship Project * Kay Sambell and Linda Graham *

17. Enriching the Student Experience: Engaging Students and Staff * Andrea Jackson and Katie Livesey *

18. Reflections and Considerations about the Future of Student Engagement * Colin Bryson *