Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education: Diverse Perspectives and Expectations in Partnership [Hardcover]

This book examines the importance of exploring the varied and diverse perspectives of student experiences. In both academic institutions and everyday discourse, the notion of the student voice is an ever-present reminder of the importance placed upon the student experience in Higher Education: particularly in a context where the financial burden of undertaking a university education continues to grow. The editors and contributors explore how notions of the student voice as a single, monolithic entity may in fact obscure divergence in the experiences of students. Placing so much emphasis on the student voice may lead educators and policy makers to miss important messages communicated  or consciously uncommunicated  through student actions. This book also explores ways of working in partnership with students to develop their own experiences. It is sure to be of interest and value to scholars of the student experience and its inherent diversity.
Chapter 1. The single voice fallacy; Simon Lygo-Baker, Ian M. Kinchin and Naomi E. Winstone.- SECTION I. Engaging with diverse student voices.- Chapter 2. Finding an identity in the crowd: a single-case framed narrative of being in the invisible majority; Ian M. Kinchin and Alexander M. Kinchin.- Chapter 3. The value of working with students as partners; Kathryn A. Sutherland, Isabella Lenihan-Ikin and Charlotte Rushforth.- Chapter 4. The voice of the student as a 'consumer'; Louise Bunce.- Chapter 5. International Student Voice(s) - Where and what are they?; Anesa Hosein and Namrata Rao.- Chapter 6. Developing oracy skills for student voice work; Marion Heron and David M. Palfreyman.- SECTION II. From voice to voices: Engaging student voices beyond metrics.- Chapter 7. Developing assessment feedback: From occasional survey to everyday practice; Naomi E. Winstone and David Boud.- Chapter 8. What happens after what happens next? The single voice of DLHE and its distortions on the student learnlÃ@