{"id":423991,"date":"2026-08-21T00:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/?post_type=tnc_col_19631_item&p=423991"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:20:22","slug":"online-communication-platforms-a-new-frontier-in-education-to-connect-schools-teachers-and-students","status":"publish","type":"tnc_col_19631_item","link":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/student-thesis-dissertation\/online-communication-platforms-a-new-frontier-in-education-to-connect-schools-teachers-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLINE COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS: A NEW FRONTIER IN EDUCATION TO CONNECT SCHOOLS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS INTEGRATIVE REVIEW EXAMINES STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENS OF CRITICAL THEORY AND IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE. AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW, WITH ITS CLAIMED ABILITY TO WORK WITH GENERAL AND AMBIGUOUS TERMS, DRAWING ON DIVERSE LITERATURES, IS SUBJECTED TO A QUASI-POPPERIAN \u2018SEVERE TEST\u2019 OF THIS CLAIM, DEMONSTRATING ALSO HOW STUDENT ENGAGEMENT CAN PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE. HERE, THIS DOUBLE \u2018SEVERE TEST\u2019 IS OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH STUDENT ENGAGEMENT CAN FULFIL ITS EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL IN A SITUATION IN WHICH IT COULD EASILY FALTER AND FAIL, VIZ. THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THE REVIEW TRACES A SEQUENCE OF INTERCONNECTED IDEAS THAT SHED LIGHT ON THE COMPLEXITIES AND CONTESTED, MULTIPLY DEFINED, GENERAL, WIDELY-EMBRACING NATURE OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AS A CONCEPT DEEPLY ENTWINED WITH POWER DYNAMICS AND IDEOLOGIES. DRAWING UPON THE WORKS OF HABERMAS, HONNETH, GRAMSCI, AND FOUCAULT, THE REVIEW EXPLORES MANY DIMENSIONS OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND ITS EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL, ALL REPORTED IN A NARRATIVE STYLE AND AN EMERGENT, CUMULATIVE ARGUMENT. HABERMAS\u2019S WORK ON \u2018KNOWLEDGE-CONSTITUTIVE INTERESTS\u2019 PROVIDES A TYPOLOGY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, AND HIS THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION ADDRESSES THE HERMENEUTIC AND EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN OVERCOMING THE PATHOLOGY OF DISTORTED COMMUNICATION IN SOCIETY. THIS IS COMPLEMENTED BY HONNETH\u2019S WORK ON MISRECOGNITION AND DISRESPECT AS A PATHOLOGY OF SOCIETY, AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN RECTIFYING THIS. THE INTEGRATIVE REVIEW, CONTINUING ITS IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE, DRAWS FROM GRAMSCI ON HEGEMONY AND FOUCAULT ON DISCOURSE, POWER, RESISTANCE, AND SURVEILLANCE, TO ANALYSE THE PERVASIVENESS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION, UNCOVERING WEAKNESSES, CONTRADICTIONS, AND LIMITATIONS WITHIN NEOLIBERALISM\u2019S INFLUENCE ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. RESISTING NEOLIBERALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION, AND PROMOTING AND EMANCIPATORY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, ADOPTS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT COMBINES IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE, \u2018COMMUNICATIVE ACTION\u2019, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY (FROM GIROUX, ZEPKE, AND FREIRE), WITH STUDENT ENGAGEMENT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EMERGING AS A TRANSFORMATIVE FORCE, THROUGH ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM. EMBRACING RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERALISM CALLS STUDENTS ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN HIGHER-ORDER, CREATIVE, AND CRITICAL THINKING, ADDRESSING SOCIETAL ISSUES AND PROMOTING VALUES, ETHICS, AND THE COMMON GOOD. THE SUCCESS OF THE \u2018SEVERE TEST\u2019 OF THE INTEGRATIVE REVIEW IS EVALUATED, BOTH PER SE AND WITH REGARD TO STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES, AND IMPLICATIONS ARE DRAWN FOR INTEGRATIVE REVIEWS AND EMANCIPATORY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-423991","tnc_col_19631_item","type-tnc_col_19631_item","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tnc_tax_19912-education","tnc_tax_19818-english","tnc_tax_19716-school-of-education","tnc_tax_19659-master-thesis","tnc_tax_19651-doctoral"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":[],"comment_info":0,"featured_img":false,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/author\/emilychan\/","display_name":"emily chan"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 \u5929 ago","modified":"Updated 2 \u5929 ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 21 8 \u6708, 2026","modified":"Updated on 24 8 \u6708, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 21 8 \u6708, 2026 12:33 \u4e0a\u5348","modified":"Updated on 24 8 \u6708, 2026 12:20 \u4e0b\u5348"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"tnc_tax_19912":{"linked":["EDUCATION<\/a>"],"unlinked":["EDUCATION<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19912","name":"PROGRAMME"},"tnc_tax_19818":{"linked":["ENGLISH<\/a>"],"unlinked":["ENGLISH<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19818","name":"LANGUAGE"},"tnc_tax_19765":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"tnc_tax_19765","name":"SUPERVISOR(S)"},"tnc_tax_19716":{"linked":["SCHOOL OF EDUCATION<\/a>"],"unlinked":["SCHOOL OF EDUCATION<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19716","name":"FACULTY \/ RESEARCH UNIT"},"tnc_tax_19659":{"linked":["Thesis & Dissertation<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Thesis & Dissertation<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19659","name":"Document Type"},"tnc_tax_19651":{"linked":["DOCTORAL<\/a>"],"unlinked":["DOCTORAL<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19651","name":"DEGREE LEVEL"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19631_item\/423991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19631_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tnc_col_19631_item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19631_item\/423991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433478,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19631_item\/423991\/revisions\/433478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}