Overview
- Offers a fresh approach to student engagement
- Offers an explanation for student engagement’s ability to transcend different intellectual and practice contexts
- Enables teachers to rethink their current practice without relying on neo-liberal ideas
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The book argues that an elective affinity between student engagement and policies embedded in neoliberalism, the dominant ideology of the early 21st century, enables student engagement to transcend diverse intellectual and practice contexts. This affinity encourages quality learning and teaching that enables student to succeed in their studies and future careers.
The book shows that focusing on neoliberal objectives for learning and teaching limits the potential of student engagement in higher education. This conclusion leads to a critical and practical social-ecological perspective that approaches engagement more as a pathway to social justice than as a list of techniques.
This book is a work of critical scholarship backed by empirical research. It questions accepted theories and practices and offers fresh insights into student engagement in higher education, including how engagement could promote social justice.
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Keywords
- Active citizenship
- Civic engagement
- Community engagement
- Disengagement
- Elective affinity
- Human capital orientation
- Individual well-being
- Learning partnerships
- Patterns of engagement
- Quality learning in higher education
- Quality teaching in higher education
- Social well-being
- Student engagement as meta-construct
- Student engagement frameworks
- Student engagement practice
- Student engagement theory
- Student participation
- Student success
- Subjective well-being
- Variables of engagement
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Exploring Mainstream Views of Student Engagement
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Questioning the Mainstream View
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Student Engagement Beyond the Mainstream
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Engagement in Neoliberal Times
Book Subtitle: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Authors: Nick Zepke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3200-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3198-4Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9815-4Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3200-4Published: 14 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 234
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education