# Student engagement in Europe: society, higher education and student governance July 18, 2014 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 Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)