Student Engagement and Empowerment in Higher Education

Thesis

Student engagement, which emphasises students’ role in shaping their ​higher education experiences, has become embedded as a core aim of national policy and the everyday management of universities. It has ​provoked a reconceptualisation of traditional hierarchies within higher education and offers the potential to be empowering for students. However, it has also been criticised for diminishing student agency by reinforcing ideas of student-as-consumer. Drawing on focus groups with students ac...

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Authors: Spanner, L

• Alternative title: Perspectives of students in England
• Type of award: MSc
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Thematic analysis; Student voice; Citizen participation; Power; Engagement; Capability approach; Focus group; Education; Empowerment; Consumer; Higher education; Amartya Sen; Marketisation; Students; Agency; Qualitative; Student repesentation
• Subjects: Education, Higher; Education