Student Engagement in Neoliberal Times Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education /

• Main Author: Zepke, Nick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

This book investigates origins, meanings, uses and effects of student engagement in higher education, and addresses three core questions: (1) Why is student engagement so visible in higher education today? (2) What are its dominant characteristics? (3) What is missing in the popular view of student...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Exploring mainstream views of student engagement
• 1 Glimpsing student engagement
• 2 Mainstream perspectives and frameworks
• 3 Towards an emergent mainstream engagement framework
• Part 2. Questioning the mainstream view. 4 Higher education in neoliberal times
• 5 Student engagement and neoliberalism: An elective affinity?
• 6 A critique of mainstream student engagement
• Part 3. Student engagement beyond the mainstream
• 7 Student engagement beyond the mainstream
• 8 Towards a critical pedagogy of engagement
• 9 Towards a critical curriculum for engagement
• 10 Supporting engagement through critical evaluation
• 11 Through distributive leadership to critical engagement
• 12 Achieving Change: Opportunities, challenges and limits.