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Student participation in university governance: the opinions of professors and students

This article focuses on analysing student participation in university governance, with the specific aims of identifying the main obstacles to student participation and offering proposals of how to better facilitate student involvement in the functioning of the university. From student questionnaires, teaching staff interviews and student discussion groups we obtained information regarding the major obstacles to student participation. The methodology employed in this research allows us to compare and contrast the opinions and perceptions of students and teaching staff. Significant differences are identified that highlight the main ways for facilitating change in student participation in the university. The required changes should not only relate to improving the means by which students are informed about ways of participating, but also influence how universities structure participatory processes, the role of the teaching staff and, specifically, the role of coordinators of those managing bodies closest to the students

© Studies in Higher Education, 2011, vol. 38, núm. 4, p. 571-583

Taylor and Francis

Author: Planas Lladó, Anna
Soler Masó, Pere
Fullana Noell, Judit
Pallisera, Maria
Vilà Suñé, Montserrat
Date: 2011
Abstract: This article focuses on analysing student participation in university governance, with the specific aims of identifying the main obstacles to student participation and offering proposals of how to better facilitate student involvement in the functioning of the university. From student questionnaires, teaching staff interviews and student discussion groups we obtained information regarding the major obstacles to student participation. The methodology employed in this research allows us to compare and contrast the opinions and perceptions of students and teaching staff. Significant differences are identified that highlight the main ways for facilitating change in student participation in the university. The required changes should not only relate to improving the means by which students are informed about ways of participating, but also influence how universities structure participatory processes, the role of the teaching staff and, specifically, the role of coordinators of those managing bodies closest to the students
Format: application/pdf
ISSN: 0307-5079 (versió paper)
1470-174X (versió electrònica)
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/11909
Language: eng
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Collection: Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2011.586996
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Is part of: © Studies in Higher Education, 2011, vol. 38, núm. 4, p. 571-583
Rights: Tots els drets reservats
Subject: Ensenyament universitari
Education, Higher
Estudiants universitaris
College students
Universitats
Universities and colleges
Title: Student participation in university governance: the opinions of professors and students
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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