The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education - (Bloomsbury Handbooks) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university settings, but also to identify the common core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes associated with student voice work in higher education. It offers a broad understanding of the methodologies, current debates, history, and future of the field, identifying avenues for future research.

Review Quotes

"A very wide ranging text on 'student voice' - covering an impressive range of geographical contexts and arenas where such voices can (or should be) heard: in teaching, in governance, and in student activism. A useful resource for postgraduate students and those conducting research into higher education." --Rachel Brooks, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, University of Surrey, UK

"This handbook is both timely and current. It provides readers with an up to date review of the field of student voice, both theory and critical examples of change work. Significantly, this volume focuses on an important and often overlooked space and activity in the field-the ways in which young people have, can, and continue to shape higher education. Just as important, the editors bring together a chorus of diverse perspectives and regions around the world into this volume to help readers understand the myriad ways to activate and elevate student agency. Higher educational institutions - by paying close attention to the ways it values and responds to the perspectives, experiences, and leadership of students - enact the very values and behaviors that undergird a healthy and responsive democracy. Thus, this handbook is a critical read for student voice researchers and practitioners, and a roadmap for newcomers to the field." --Marc Brasof, Associate Professor of Education, Arcadia University, USA

About the Author

Jerusha Conner is Professor of Education at Villanova University, USA.

Rille Raaper is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Research in the School of Education at Durham University, UK

Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela is a Professor of Higher Education at Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile.

Launa Gauthier is Assistant Professor at the School of Education at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.