EDUC46630: Student Engagement: An agent of change for positive youth development and learning success

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• A consideration of student engagement in research, policy and practice with a particular focus on educational interventions that show promise in enhancing students' engagement.

• Broad overview:
• In this module, we will consider theoretical and practical perspectives on student engagement focusing, in particular, on the following questions:
• 1. What do engaged students look like?
• 2. Why does student engagement matter?
• 3. What are the antecedents and outcomes of engaged students and engaging contexts?
• 4. How do contextual factors (schools, families, peers) influence students and, in turn, student outcomes?
• 5. What is the relationship between engagement, learning and achievement?
• 6. In what ways can student engagement be improved?
• Summary of content:
• Promoting student engagement from childhood to adolescence as a way to improve positive youth development and school completion.
• Profiles of school disengagement and person-centred analytic techniques.
• The intersection of student engagement and families a critical connection for achievement and life outcomes.
• Peer relationships and engagement; supporting peer relationships to promote engagement.
• Developmental dynamics of student engagement; engagement across developmental periods.
• Instructional interventions that support student engagement; key facilitators of student engagement from an international perspective; classroom strategies to enhance academic engaged time.
• Self-efficacy and engagement.
• Creating caring classroom and school communities; social and emotional learning programmes and practices.
• Nurturing motivation, engagement and resilience in students; the power of mind-sets.
• Mental health interventions: empirical links between student engagement and mental health.
• Measurement issues, instruments and approaches; measuring student engagement to inform effective interventions in schools.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Critical understanding of theoretical and empirical conceptualisations of engagement definitions, significance, contextual influences, student outcomes and promising educational interventions.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the module, students will be able to:
• Identify and critically evaluate key research, including policy documents, that have sought to clarify conceptual issues and promote student engagement through interventions that aim to increase positive educational outcomes.
• Apply theoretical perspectives to practical issues relevant to student engagement in different educational contexts.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of recent research in student engagement and ascertain the quality and strength of the existing evidence.

Key Skills:

• Demonstrate the ability to research literature, including, for example, searching, synthesising, summarising and critiquing the relevant literature.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate educational research.
• Use ICT when presenting assignments.
• Organise and plan.
• Formulate, analyse and solve problems.
• Learn independently.

• Lectures, workshops and seminars, including presentations from the students.
• The objectives will be met largely through interactive workshops combining lecture and seminars with workshop tasks.
• Each student will be required to give one 10 minute presentation in the course of the module; this will be summatively assessed.

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