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Zusatztext Consuming Higher Education is a timely and comprehensive treatment of a phenomenon that is of growing importance as governments everywhere embark on market-based reforms. It should be read and reflected on by everyone with an interest in the future health of our higher education system. Informationen zum Autor Joanna Williams is a Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent, UK. Klappentext Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning. Vorwort Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...
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Joanna
Williams is a Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the
University of Kent, UK.
