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