Alternative perspectives on the student experience: alienation and engagement

This article offers a theoretical exploration of the student's experience o f higher education by reframing how we view this, from a focus on surface/s trategic/deep approaches to learning to a focus on alienated or engaged exp eriences of learning. The article focuses on alienation and offers seven di fferent perspectives on how we might understand this experience of higher e ducation. Implications are then drawn for how, as teachers, we might respon d.