Study, power and the university

• Main Author: Mann, Sarah J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK : McGraw-Hill/Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 2008.
• Subjects: Education, Higher.; College students.; Learning.; EDUCATION > Higher.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Offers an analysis of the teaching and learning process in higher education and a reminder of the issue of power and social and institutional context within this. This book also offers a review of our understanding of student learning and an account of the student experience as indicated by qualitat...

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover; Half title; Series editor page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part 1: The student experience; Chapter 2: Student approaches to learning; Chapter 3: The experience of being a student; Part 2: The institution as a context for learning; Chapter 4: Context and power; Chapter 5: The economic and social functions of higher education; Chapter 6: The institutionalisation of time, space, activity and the self; Chapter 7: Learning as discursive practice; Chapter 8: The special case of assessment.