Study, power and the university /

Study, power and the university /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mann, Sarah J.
Imprint:	Maidenhead ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press : Society for Research into Higher Education, 2008.
Description:	x, 178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Education, Higher. College students. Learning. College students. Education, Higher. Learning.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7780028

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Other authors / contributors:	Society for Research into Higher Education.
ISBN:	9780335221141 (hbk.) 0335221149 (hbk.) 9780335221134 (pbk.) 0335221130 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
Summary:	"This book highlights the effects of power within the hight educational process, and argues that in order to understand the student experience we have to take seriously the institution as a context for learning." "Higher Education has its own particular culture, social relations and practices, governed by social and discursive norms. It is always implicated in relations of power through its function in society and its effects on individuals. This book considers how, for the student, these effects can be enabling and engaging, or limiting and diminishing." "In exploring the effects of the institutionalization of learning and the workings of power implicated within this, it sets out to add to more cognitive and pedagogic ways of understanding student experience in higher education."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part 1. The student experience
2. Student approaches to learning
3. The experience of being a student
Part 2. The institution as a context for learning
4. Context and power
5. The economic and social functions of higher education
6. The institutionalisation of time, space, activity and the self
7. Learning as discursive practice
8. The special case of assessment
Part 3. Possible futures: concentration or differentiation
9. Concentration: the self and the limiting forces of the institution
10. Differentiation: the enabling forces of the institution
Notes
Appendix Table of studies of the student experience
References
Index