Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student
experience of learning.With a larger and much more diverse intake
than ever before, linked with a declining unit of resource,
questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of higher
education. Although much of the debate is currently focused on
issues of student access and success, a simple input-output model
of higher education is insufficient. This book turns this
conversation on its head, by inserting a full consideration of
student agency into the context of higher education.Working
sociologically, it explores the influence of the social context on
what the individual student achieves. The theoretical tenets of a
social realist approach are laid out in detail in the book; the
potential value of this approach is then illustrated by a case
study of student learning in engineering education.Employing
Margaret Archer's social realist theory, an analysis of student
narratives is used to work towards a realist understanding of the
underlying mechanisms that constrain and enable student
success.Building on this analysis, the book develops a novel set of
proposals for potential ways forward in improving student learning
in higher education.
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