Student engagement in Europe: society, higher education and student governance

Book summary: Democratic institutions and laws are essential, but they cannot bring about democracy on their own. They will only function if they build on a culture of democracy, and our societies will not be able to develop and sustain such a culture unless education plays an essential role. Student engagement is crucial: democracy cannot be taught unless it is practised within institutions, among students and in relations between higher education and society in general.

This 20th volume of the Council of Europe Higher Education Series demonstrates the importance of student engagement for the development and maintenance of the democratic culture that enables democratic institutions and laws to function in practice. This volume covers three aspects of student engagement that are seldom explored: its role in society through political participation and civic involvement; its place in higher education policy processes and policy-making structures; and how student unions represent the most institutionalised form of student engagement. The authors are accomplished scholars, policy makers, students and student leaders.

Manja Klemenčič, Sjur Bergan and Rok Primožič (editors)

ISBN 978-92-871-7971-5
Type of document : Book
Format : Paper
Size : 16 x 24 cm
Language : English
Number of pages : 396

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Contents

PREFACE

A WORD FROM THE EDITORS
Manja Klemenčič, Sjur Bergan and Rok Primožič

INTRODUCTION – WHAT IS STUDENT AGENCY? AN ONTOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN THE CONTEXT OF RESEARCH ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Manja Klemenčič

PART I – STUDENTS’ ROLE IN SOCIETY
          Chapter 1 – Theorising student activism in and beyond the 20th century: the contribution of Philip G. Altbach
          Thierry M. Luescher‑Mamashela
          Chapter 2 – “I am tired of reading history. Now I want to make it!” The rise and fall of the university campus as a space for social rebellion
          Rómulo Pinheiro and Dominik Antonowicz
          Chapter 3 – Student activism in times of individualisation: the case of Slovenia
          Mirjana Ule
          Chapter 4 – “A truly transformative experience”: the biographical legacy of student protest participation
          Bojana Ćulum and Karin Doolan
          Chapter 5 – Parliaments or streets?
          Milica Popović
          Chapter 6 – Student union resistance to tuition fees in Finland
          Leasa Weimer
          Chapter 7 – The role and capacity of youth organisations and student engagement: a comparative study of Serbia, Croatia and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”
          Martin Galevski
          Chapter 8 – A challenge for student engagement: the decline of the “normal” student
          Dominic Orr, Froukje Wartenbergh‑Cras and Christine Scholz
          Chapter 9 – Student engagement: the social dimension and role of quality assurance
          David Crosier

PART II – STUDENT INFLUENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
          Chapter 10 – Changing the shape and outcomes of student engagement
          Paul Trowler
          Chapter 11 – Towards student engagement as an organisational task? Some recent examples from Germany
          Marion Gut
          Chapter 12 – Student engagement: providing services or forging partnerships?
          Vicki Trowler
          Chapter 13 – Politics as process: Salford’s charter of student rights
          Martin Hall and Andrew Snowden
          Chapter 14 – Innovative forms of student engagement: how virtual co‑operative communities counterbalance the exclusion of students from active learning and governance
          Petr Pabian
          Chapter 15 – The evolution of public discourse on higher education financing in Europe: students’ unions and European processes
          George‑Konstantinos Charonis and Robert Santa
          Chapter 16 – ESU Student Experts’ Pool on Quality Assurance: a mechanism for involving students in quality assurance in Europe
          Asnate Kažoka

PART III – STUDENT GOVERNANCE
          Chapter 17 – We are one, but we’re not the same: explaining the emergence of hybrid national student unions
          Jens Jungblut and Regina Weber
          Chapter 18 – Student engagement in higher education policy making: a view from the Polish representative in the Bologna Follow‑Up Group
          Bartłomiej Banaszak
          Chapter 19 – Students’ rights: shaping the student movement at national and European level
          Gabriela Bergan
          Chapter 20 – The policy influence strategy of student representatives: a comparative, case‑based survey in Flemish University Colleges (Belgium)
          Michiel Horsten
          Chapter 21 – Belonging, social capital and representation: first‑generation students’ voices in Portuguese higher education
          Ana Sofia Ribeiro
          Chapter 22 – The quality of representation of international students in higher education governance: a case study of the German Federal State of Schleswig‑Holstein and its higher education institutions
          Laura Asarite and Sophie Wulk
          Chapter 23 – Student unions and British popular music culture
          Paul Long

CONCLUSION – DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, EDUCATION AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Sjur Bergan

INDEX
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
PUBLICATIONS IN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES