Lecturer Leadership and Student Academic Engagement in TVET Colleges: A Conceptual and Theoretical Review
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https://doi.org/10.37870/joqie.v16i27.524Keywords:
Lecturer leadership; Student academic engagement; TVET colleges; Transformational leadership.Abstract
The academic engagement of students is pertinent in higher education circles. As authors, we argue that in addition to other contributing factors to student success, student academic engagement is at the centre of learning, and in this conceptual study in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. There is a plethora of scientific and empirical evidence of leadership in higher education, but not much has been researched on the influence of lecturer leadership on student engagement, especially in TVET educational contexts. This literature gap is the main purpose for embarking on this study. This study is conceptual in nature and pertinent, and relevant scholarly work focused on student engagement, lecturer leadership, and engagement -enhancing pedagogies is critically evaluated. This theory is applied to explore the relationship of lecture leadership and student engagement with a focus on the leadership of lecturers in the TVETspace.
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