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ISBN: | 9789811032004 9811032009 9811031983 9789811031984
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Summary: | 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 engagement? These questions pave the way for a fresh approach to student engagement. 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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Other form: | Print version: ZEPKE, NICK. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES. [Place of publication not identified] : SPRINGER, 2017 9811031983 9789811031984
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Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-981-10-3200-4
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