The Consumer Experience of Higher Education - The Rise of Capsule Education

Informationen zum Autor Deirdre McArdle-Clinton is Lecturer at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. Vorwort This work examines the philosophy underpinning current higher education provision. Zusammenfassung Examines the philosophy underpinning current higher education provision. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface \ Part I \ Introduction \ 1. Modernism, Postmodernism and Higher Education \ 2. The Packaging of Education - Education as Oppression \ 3. Education Systems - Education as an Industry \ 4. Naming the Industry's Products - Education Terminologies \ 5. Postmodern Consumer Culture - The Effect on Education \ 6. Measuring the Grade and Quality of Education \ 7. Education - Agent for Social Placement \ 8. From Masefield to Massification \ Part II \ 9. The Consumer Experience of Higher Education \ 10. The Testimony of Teachers \ 11. The Testimony of Students \ Part III \ 12. ReflectionsChapter \ 13. An Alternative View \ 14. Exploring the Metaphor \ 15. A Compromise Proposal \ Bibliography \ Index

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• Authors: Deirdre McArdle-Clinton, McArdle-Clinton Deirdre
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2008
• EAN: 9781847062093
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-209-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Continuum Studies in Education; Continuum Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher