Student Engagement in Neoliberal Times: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

This book investigates origins, meanings, uses and effects of student engagement in higher education, and addresses three core questions: (1) Why is student engagement so visible in higher education today? (2) What are its dominant characteristics? (3) What is missing in the popular view of student engagement? These questions pave the way for a fresh approach to student engagement.

The book argues that an elective affinity between student engagement and policies embedded in neoliberalism,...