Secondary Teachers’ Conceptions of Student Engagement: Engagement in Learning or in Schooling?
This article was published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Vol 27 number 2,
Author(s): Lois Harris, " Secondary Teachers’ Conceptions of Student Engagement: Engagement in Learning or in Schooling?", Pages 376-386, Copyright Elsevier (February 2011).
This article proposes a distinction between student engagement in schooling and engagement in learning based on literature and empirical results.
Data from a phenomenographic study of 20 Australian teachers were analysed to show how teacher thinking related to this distinction.
The findings reveal that some teachers held conceptions centred on promoting cognitive engagement and student learning, whereas others aligned with engagement in schooling, focusing on generating participation and emphasising positive student affective experiences.