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episode 11: Ella Kahu: Opening up higher education: understanding and improving student engagement
Ella Kahu is a psychologist, and currently Senior Lecturer at the University of New Zealand. She is primarily interested in social psychology and education, and she's best known for her work on student experience and engagement in higher education settings.
This podcast focuses on Ella Kahu's 2013 research paper: 'Framing student engagement in higher education.' The paper explores existing research on the role of student engagement on achievement in higher education, before proposing a framework which gives a better understanding of this role of student engagement.
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