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

Submitted to the Publisher - Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 20, Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing

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

 Manja Klemenčič, Sjur Bergan and Rok Primožič (eds.)

TABLE of CONTENTS

Preface............................................................................................................................................ 5

   Snežana Samardžić-Marković

 

Word from the editors................................................................................................................... 7

   Manja Klemenčič, Sjur Bergan and Rok Primožič

 

Introduction................................................................................................................................. 10

Introducing student agency into research on student engagement – an ontological exploration.. 11

Manja Klemenčič

 

Part I: Students’ role in society................................................................................................... 31

 

Theorising Student Activism in and beyond the Twentieth Century: The Contribution of Philip G Altbach           30

Thierry Luescher-Mamashela

 

‘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......................................................................................................................................... 49

Rómulo Pinheiro and Dominik Antonowicz

 

Student activism in times of individualisation: the case of Slovenia............................................ 65

Mirjana Ule

 

‘A truly transformative experience’: the biographical legacy of student protest participation..... 80

Bojana Čulum and Karin Doolan

 

Parliaments or streets?................................................................................................................... 96

Milica Popović

 

Student union resistance to tuition in Finland............................................................................. 110

Leasa Weimer

 

The role and capacity of youth organisations and student engagement: a comparative study of Serbia, croatia and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.......................................................................... 123

Martin Galevski

 

A challenge for student engagement – the decline of the “normal” student.............................. 135

Dominic Orr, Froukje Wartenbergh-Cras and Christine Scholz

 

Student Engagement: the Social Dimension and role of Quality Assurance.............................. 144

David Crosier

 

Part II: Student influence in higher education........................................................................ 159

 

Changing the shape and outcomes of student engagement........................................................ 160

Paul Trowler

 

Towards student engagement as an organisational task? The case of Germany......................... 172

Marion Gut

 

Student engagement – providing services or forging partnership?............................................. 190

Vicki Trowler

 

Politics as process: Salford’s charter of student rights................................................................ 202

Martin Hall and Andrew Snowden

 

Innovative forms of student engagement: how virtual cooperative communities counterbalance the exclusion of students from active learning and governance............................................................................ 218

Petr Pabian

 

The evolution of public discourse on higher education financing in Europe: students’ unions and european processes..................................................................................................................................................... 228

George-Konstantinos Charonis and Robert Santa

 

ESU Student Experts’ Pool on Quality Assurance – mechanism for involving students in quality assurance in Europe..................................................................................................................................................... 243

Asnate Kažoka

 

Part III: Student governance.................................................................................................... 258

 

We are one, but we’re not the same – explaining the emergence of hybrid national student

unions.......................................................................................................................................... 259

Jens Jungblut and Regina Weber

 

Student engagement in higher education policy making: a view from the Polish representative in the Bologna Follow-Up Group........................................................................................................................ 272

Bartłomiej Banaszak

 

Students’ rights: shaping the student movement at national and European level....................... 280

Gabriela Bergan

 

The policy influence strategy of student representatives. A comparative, case-based survey in Flemish University Colleges (Belgium)...................................................................................................................... 295

Michiel Horsten

 

Belonging, social capital and representation: First generation students’ voices in Portuguese higher education      310

Ana Sofia Ribeiro

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................................. 323

Laura Asarite and Sophie Wulk

 

Student Unions and UK popular music culture.......................................................................... 337

Paul Long

 

Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 348

Democratic culture, education and student engagement............................................................ 349

   Sjur Bergan

 

Index........................................................................................................................................... 369

 

Notes on contributors................................................................................................................ 371

Editors......................................................................................................................................... 371

Authors........................................................................................................................................ 372

 

Publications in the Council of Europe Higher Education Series........................................... 379