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A handbook for student engagement in higher education : theory into practice / edited by Tom Lowe and Yassein El Hakim.

Contributor(s): Lowe, Tom (Programme leader) [editor.] | El Hakim, Yassein [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Staff and educational development series: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvii, 303 pages : tables, charts ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367085490 (paperback).Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives | Motivation in education | Academic achievementDDC classification: 370.154
Contents:
Student engagement is hard work, but quality takes time / Douglas Blackstock -- An introduction to student engagement in higher education / Tom Lowe and Yassein El Hakim -- Creating relationships between students, staff and universities for student engagement in educational developments / Yassein El Hakim, Camille Kandiko-Howson and Rebecca Freeman -- "I am a part of the university" : why universities offering non-traditional students extracurricular opportunities leads to higher levels of student engagement : a mature student's perspective / Gary Donaldson -- Theory and principles underpinning students engaged in educational developments : SEEDs for the future / Yassein El Hakimand Tom Lowe -- The changing nature and importance of student representation / Alex Bols -- Student engagement in evaluation : expanding perspectives and ownership / Catherine Bovill and Cherie Woolmer -- Student engagement through classroom-focused pedagogical partnership : a model and outcomes from the United States / Alison Cook-Sather -- From the micro' to the 'mega' : toward a multi-level approach to supporting and assessing student-staff partnership / Elizabeth Marquis, Christine Black, Rachel Guitman, Mick Healey and Cherie Woolme -- A students as partners approach to developing a work-integrated learning program for science / Susan Rowland -- Going beyond student voice through meta-level education transformation / Adam F.C. Fletcher -- Critically reflecting on identities, particularities, and relationships in student engagement / Peter Felton -- Trust me, working alone is challenging : what are the benefits of working in partnership in higher education? / Kiu Sum -- The amplification of student voices via institutional research and evaluation / Liz Austen -- On the origin of student fellows : reflections on the evolution of partnership from theory to practice / Cassie Shaw and Stuart Sims -- Empowering students as champions in technology enhanced learning to improve digital literacies / Fiona Harvey and Jim Anderson -- Empowering students to enhance education at their university / Jenny Marie -- Students as partners and peer coaches in student engagement : themes from PASS scheme biographies / Digby Warren, Sophie Cloutterbuck and Wilko Luebsen -- Student partners as digital change agents / Clare Killen and Sarah Knight -- Scholarship as student engagement in college higher education / John Lea, Rhonda Lobb, Jac Cattaneoand Jenny Lawrence -- Who defines success in higher education? : a student perspective on the future of student engagement / Madelene Pownall -- From then to now in student engagement : an academic's perspective / Colin Bryson.
Summary: "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 theoretical and research 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Student engagement is hard work, but quality takes time / Douglas Blackstock -- An introduction to student engagement in higher education / Tom Lowe and Yassein El Hakim -- Creating relationships between students, staff and universities for student engagement in educational developments / Yassein El Hakim, Camille Kandiko-Howson and Rebecca Freeman -- "I am a part of the university" : why universities offering non-traditional students extracurricular opportunities leads to higher levels of student engagement : a mature student's perspective / Gary Donaldson -- Theory and principles underpinning students engaged in educational developments : SEEDs for the future / Yassein El Hakimand Tom Lowe -- The changing nature and importance of student representation / Alex Bols -- Student engagement in evaluation : expanding perspectives and ownership / Catherine Bovill and Cherie Woolmer -- Student engagement through classroom-focused pedagogical partnership : a model and outcomes from the United States / Alison Cook-Sather -- From the micro' to the 'mega' : toward a multi-level approach to supporting and assessing student-staff partnership / Elizabeth Marquis, Christine Black, Rachel Guitman, Mick Healey and Cherie Woolme -- A students as partners approach to developing a work-integrated learning program for science / Susan Rowland -- Going beyond student voice through meta-level education transformation / Adam F.C. Fletcher -- Critically reflecting on identities, particularities, and relationships in student engagement / Peter Felton -- Trust me, working alone is challenging : what are the benefits of working in partnership in higher education? / Kiu Sum -- The amplification of student voices via institutional research and evaluation / Liz Austen -- On the origin of student fellows : reflections on the evolution of partnership from theory to practice / Cassie Shaw and Stuart Sims -- Empowering students as champions in technology enhanced learning to improve digital literacies / Fiona Harvey and Jim Anderson -- Empowering students to enhance education at their university / Jenny Marie -- Students as partners and peer coaches in student engagement : themes from PASS scheme biographies / Digby Warren, Sophie Cloutterbuck and Wilko Luebsen -- Student partners as digital change agents / Clare Killen and Sarah Knight -- Scholarship as student engagement in college higher education / John Lea, Rhonda Lobb, Jac Cattaneoand Jenny Lawrence -- Who defines success in higher education? : a student perspective on the future of student engagement / Madelene Pownall -- From then to now in student engagement : an academic's perspective / Colin Bryson.

"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 theoretical and research 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of figures (p. x)
  • List of tables (p. xi)
  • List of abbreviations (p. xii)
  • List of contributors (p. xiii)
  • Foreword: Student engagement is hard work, but quality takes time (p. xvii)
  • Part I Introduction to student engagement in higher education (p. 1)
  • 1 An introduction to student engagement in higher education (p. 3)
  • 2 Creating relationships between students, staff and universities for student engagement in educational developments (p. 27)
  • 3 "I am a part of the university": why universities offering non-traditional students extracurricular opportunities leads to higher levels of student engagement: a mature student's perspective (p. 41)
  • 4 Theory and principles underpinning 'students engaged in educational developments': SEEDs for the future (p. 48)
  • 5 The changing nature and importance of student representation (p. 66)
  • 6 Student engagement in evaluation: expanding perspectives and ownership (p. 83)
  • Part II International perspectives of theory into practice (p. 97)
  • 7 Student engagement through classroom-focused pedagogical partnership: a model and outcomes from the United States (p. 99)
  • 8 From the 'micro' to the 'mega': toward a multi-level approach to supporting and assessing student-staff partnership (p. 110)
  • 9 A students-as-partners approach to developing a work-integrated learning program for science (p. 125)
  • 10 Going beyond student voice through meta-level education transformation (p. 136)
  • 11 Critically reflecting on identities, particularities and relationships in student engagement (p. 148)
  • Part III Models of student engagement in practice (p. 155)
  • 12 Trust me, working alone is challenging: what are the benefits of working in partnership in higher education? (p. 157)
  • 13 The amplification of student voices via institutional research and evaluation (p. 164)
  • 14 On the origin of Student Fellows: reflections on the evolution of partnership from theory to practice (p. 177)
  • 15 Empowering students as champions in technology enhanced learning (TEL) to improve digital literacies (p. 187)
  • 16 Empowering students to enhance education at their university (p. 198)
  • 17 Students as partners and peer coaches in student engagement: themes from PASS scheme biographies (p. 209)
  • 18 Student partners as digital change agents (p. 220)
  • 19 Scholarship as student engagement in college higher education (p. 233)
  • Part IV The future of student engagement (p. 245)
  • 20 Who defines success in higher education? A student perspective on the future of student engagement (p. 247)
  • 21 From then to now in student engagement: an academic's perspective (p. 255)
  • 22 Higher education institutions and policy makers: the future of student engagement (p. 267)
  • 23 Student engagement for educational developments (SEED) (p. 285)
  • Index (p. 298)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tom Lowe is the Centre for Student Engagement Manager at the University of Winchester, UK.
Yassein El Hakim is Co-Founder and CEO at VerifyEd, UK.

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