Student Perceptions of Themselves as "Consumers" of Higher Education

Autor/in	Tomlinson, Michael
Titel	Student Perceptions of Themselves as "Consumers" of Higher Education
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38 (2017) 4, S.450-467 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2015.1113856
Schlagwörter	Student Attitudes; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Qualitative Research; Commercialization; Undergraduate Students; Consumer Education; Consumer Economics; Focus Groups; Interviews; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Qualitative Forschung; Konsumerziehung; Konsumökonomie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article first offers a survey of what has become an area of increasing interest in higher education: the rise of the so-called "student-consumer". This has been linked in part to the marketisation of higher education and the increased personal financial contributions individual students make towards their higher education. Drawing upon a qualitative study with students across seven different UK higher education institutions, the article shows that while there is evidence of growing identification with a consumer-orientated approach, this does not fundamentally capture their perspectives and relationships to higher education. The article shows the degree of variability in attitude and approaches towards consumerism of higher education and how students still perceive higher education in ways that do not conform to the ideal student-consumer approach. The implications for university relations and how policy-makers and institutions themselves approach the issue are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01