Increasing Student Engagement Through Student-Teacher Relationships, Autonomy, and Student-Centered Pedagogy
Abstract
It is acknowledged that student engagement is an essential component of academic achievement and leads to positive student outcomes. However, the approaches taken to foster student engagement vary widely. To maximize student engagement, educators need to purposefully focus on fostering positive relationships, developing relevant lessons, and creating a sense of autonomy within their classroom through student-centered pedagogical practices to promote students’ affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement. This mixed-methods case study leverages two key strategies to develop the areas mentioned above, including using social emotional learning competencies to foster student-teacher relationships and utilizing student centered approaches to teaching and learning to create content relevance and develop a sense of autonomy within the participating students. The theory of action in this study proposes that if students have strong relationships with their teachers, a sense of autonomy and control in the classroom, and participate in collaborative work, then student engagement will increase.
Subject Area
Educational leadership|Pedagogy
Recommended Citation
Lima, Salvatore, "Increasing Student Engagement Through Student-Teacher Relationships, Autonomy, and Student-Centered Pedagogy" (2023). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30486423.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30486423
