Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education

Edited by Cathy Stone, Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, The University of Newcastle and Sarah O’Shea, Professor and Dean, Graduate Research, Charles Sturt University, Australia

• ContentsForeword: developing a conceptual framework of student engagement xxiiiElla Kahu1 Introduction: the story behind the book 1Cathy Stone and Sarah O’SheaPART I UNDERSTANDING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT2 The quest for the holy grail of student engagement: curriculum as theengagement integrator 7Sally Kift3 The relational turn in student engagement 28Kelly E. Matthews, Jason M. Lodge and Melissa Johnstone4 Online student engagement in higher education – what it is, why weneed it, and how we can promote it 39Alice BrownPART II STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OFDIVERSE COHORTS5 University student engagement and disability 55Matt Brett, Kelly George, Elizabeth Knight and Melinda Hildebrandt6 Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other under-serveduniversity students through Indigenous relationality 72Bep Uink, Renae Isaacs-Guthridge and Rebecca Bennett7 Engagement and the first-in-family student: creating a manifesto for success 87Sarah O’Shea8 Traversing engagement in higher education for student-carers 102Sally Savage and Deborah Munro9 Enabling pedagogies: engaging with students into and through higher education 119Anna Bennett and Penny Jane Burke10 Belonging, wellbeing and engagement: perspectives of regional, ruraland remote students 133Janine Delahunty and Nicole Crawford11 Analysing regional student engagement: identifying institutionalstrategies for student success 149Karen Nelson, Kylie Readman, Ian Stoodley and Catherine Picton12 Reexamining engagement in Australian higher education: insights fromstudents with Culturally and Linguistically Marginalised Migrant and/orRefugee (CALMMR) backgrounds 167Rachel Burke, Sally Baker and Tebeje Molla13 Challenging the institutional habitus: to what extent has research aboutcommuter student engagement in England transformed higher educationproviders? 182Liz Thomas14 Enhancing online student engagement: lessons from the pandemic 199Cathy Stone15 Strengths-based engagement with student veterans: reframingpossibilities and challenges for higher education institutions 213Katie R. Sullivan and Kay YoonPART III INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF STUDENTENGAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES IN ACTION16 Engaging Indigenous Australian students: the I-Place Ecology Tool 225Maria Raciti, Jennifer Carter, David Hollinsworth and Kathryn Gilbey17 Engaged with what, whom, when, how and why? Longitudinal andrelational engagement in online postgraduate education in Scotland 241Tim Fawns18 Gypsy, Traveller and Roma students in UK higher education: an ethicof engagement through the student lifecycle 255Emily Danvers and Natalie Forster19 Student engagement efforts in a new university in Rwanda 271Rex Wong20 Enhancing student engagement and attainment through Credit for PriorLearning in the US 286Matt Bergman, Michele Rice, Kendrah Pearson and Tracy Robinson21 Student civic engagement practices from an equity perspective: casestudies from Austrian universities 302Franziska Lessky, Sabine Freudhofmayer, Magdalena Fellner and KatharinaResch22 Engaging students at a French-speaking Canadian distance university 316Patrick Plante, Gustavo Adolfo Angulo Mendoza, Caroline Brassard, SergeGérin-Lajoie, Cathia Papi and Isabelle Savard23 Students as partners in higher education assessment in Australia 331Jacqui Peters, Kate Moncrieff, Cassandra Iannucci and Dylan Scanlon24 Pūrehuroatanga: an Aotearoa New Zealand case study inwhole-of-institution student engagement and success 348Giselle Byrnes and Tere McGonagle-Daly25 The effect of Korean students’ goal orientations on engagement insynchronous online classes 365Sun Joo Yoo, Sooyoung Kim and Youn Kyung Seo26 Theoretical foundations for storying a knowledge basket: enhancingstudent engagement in Indigenous studies in the Australian context 380Tracey Bunda, Katelyn Barney, Nisa Richy, Lisa Oliver, r e a (Regina)Saunders and Stephanie Gilbert27 Conclusion: final thoughts and take-home messages 397Sarah O’Shea and Cathy Stone

‘This book is especially recommended for those involved in engagement research, policy-making, curriculum design, and educational practices, serving as a critical resource for navigating and enhancing student engagement in an evolving educational landscape.’