Consuming higher education : why learning can't be bought

✍ Scribed by Williams, Joanna

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Category: Library

✦ 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 instrument. Read more...

Abstract:

Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction: it's not about the money --
Students within a changing university --
The rise of the student consumer --
Constructing consumption --
Teaching consumption and consuming learning --
A question of identity --
Customer care --
Beyond entitlement.

✦ Subjects

Education, Higher -- Economic aspects. Education, Higher -- Marketing. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Higher education and state. EDUCATION -- Higher.