Student Engagement: A Strategic Tool to Reform the Quality of Management Education

Abstract

Management education institutions facing increasingly straitened economic conditions, attracting and retaining students, satisfying and developing them and ensuring they graduate to become successful & productive citizen. Student engagement is primarily and historically about increasing achievement, positive behaviors, and a sense of belonging in the classroom. Student engagement is concerned with the interaction between the time, effort and other relevant resources invested by both students and their institutions intended to optimise the student experience and enhance the learning outcomes and development of students and the performance, and reputation of the institution. Kuh (2001, 2009) has defined student engagement as ―the time and effort students devote to activities that are empirically linked to desired outcomes of college and what institutions do to induce students to participate in these activities. Across India, as well as internationally, student engagement has become one of the key concerns and key strategies for educational and social reform particularly in management institutes. Management Educators interested in student engagement must more deeply analyze assumptions about pedagogy, about the purpose of management education, and about the so-called ―digital students‖ and the world we are launching them into. The objective of this paper is to list the Student Engagement (SE) attributes and the subsequent effect on learning process. This paper also discusses the various dimensions of students‘ engagement and elaborates areas like: various functions of SE. Through the Relationship Framework, which consists of seven levels of relationships, this paper attempts to formally strategize SE as an effective activity to reform the quality of management education.