Student engagement reimagined: A qualitative inquiry into student engagement in real-world learning contexts
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2025-12
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University of New Brunswick
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The phenomenon of engagement in learning and what facilitates and indicates this experience for students is more important now than ever. As an important catalyst of student success, intellectual engagement is the discrete experience of being immersed in the disciplines as a path to creative, original student work (Skinner & Pitzer, 2012; Clapp, 2017). Reimaging the learning experience defines the core focus of the bounded case for this multi-phase qualitative research methodology. In vivo code derived from student-participants informs rich case studies describing ORIGINAL WORK, IDENTITY, CONNECTION and CARE, FREEDOM and CHALLENGE, the five concepts of intellectual engagement. The research project concludes that intellectual engagement of students as a priority for teachers is a valuable goal for both students and teachers that can be used to develop transformational learning experiences that reach beyond the initial context of learning.