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Title: CONSUMING HIGHER EDUCATION
WHY LEARNING CAN'T BE BOUGHT
By: Arthur L. Wilson, Joanna Williams
Format: Hardback

List price: £160.00


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ISBN 10: 1441194509
ISBN 13: 9781441194503
Publisher: CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Pub. date: 22 November, 2012
Pages: 208
Description: Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning.
Synopsis: Consuming Higher Education explores the status of students within the university and society, and the funding and purpose of higher education, drawing on empirical data, UK and USA government policy documents, speeches by policy makers and media representations of students. Joanna Williams moves beyond the debates surrounding fees to consider the impact of the consumption model on universities, learning, knowledge, and student identity. While consumer status initially appears to empower students, Williams argues that it ultimately erodes students' autonomy and reduces learning to an instrumental focus on credit accumulation. At the same time, in giving students consumer status, lecturers are encouraged to avoid intellectually or emotionally challenging content so as not to upset student consumers, which could promote dissatisfaction. Williams draws these themes and arguments together to consider what it means to be a student and to explore alternative conceptions of higher education.
Publication: US
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Returns: Returnable
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