Joanna Williams: Consuming Higher Education

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Joanna
Williams is a Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the
University of Kent, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the context to the current debates around the status of students as consumers.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements \ Foreword Arthur L. Wilson \ Introduction: It's Not About the Money \ Part I: The Construction of the Student as Consumer \ 1. Students Within a Changing University \ 2. The Rise of the Student Consumer \ 3. Constructing Consumption \ Part II: Being a Consumer \ 4. Teaching Consumption and Consuming Learning \ 5. A Question of Identity \ 6. Customer Care \ 7. Beyond Entitlement \ Bibliography \ Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Bildungswesen
Genre:	Erziehung & Bildung , Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781441183606
ISBN-10:	1441183604
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Williams, Joanna
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Joanna Williams
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.11.2012
Gewicht:	0,289 kg