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End Games? Consumer-based learning in higher education and its implications for lifelong learning

End Games? Consumer-based learning in higher education and its implications for lifelong learning
End Games? Consumer-based learning in higher education and its implications for lifelong learning
This paper outlines core features of what it terms consumer-based learning and relates this to the context of increasing utilitarian goals and values of higher education. It argues that this presents challenges broader than the immediate teaching and learning environment and student experience, which also potentially impacts the future lives of graduates leaving university.
commodification, consumerism, human capital, lifelong learning, values
1360-3108
124-128
Tomlinson, Michael
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Tomlinson, Michael
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Tomlinson, Michael (2013) End Games? Consumer-based learning in higher education and its implications for lifelong learning. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 17 (4), 124-128. (doi:10.1080/13603108.2013.832710).

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This paper outlines core features of what it terms consumer-based learning and relates this to the context of increasing utilitarian goals and values of higher education. It argues that this presents challenges broader than the immediate teaching and learning environment and student experience, which also potentially impacts the future lives of graduates leaving university.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 25 October 2013
Published date: December 2013
Keywords: commodification, consumerism, human capital, lifelong learning, values

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Local EPrints ID: 360611
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/360611
DOI: doi:10.1080/13603108.2013.832710
ISSN: 1360-3108
PURE UUID: 0f087c34-7a91-4e11-ba8f-e7f24369f4b6
ORCID for Michael Tomlinson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-5188

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Date deposited: 18 Dec 2013 16:58
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:40

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