Study, Power and the University - Couverture souple

Mann, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335221130 ISBN 13 : 9780335221134

Editeur : Open University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book highlights the effects of power within the higher educational process, and argues that in order to understand the student experience we have to take seriously the institution as a context for learning.

It considers key questions such as:

• Why is the student experience of higher education sometimes negative or restricted?
• How does power operate within the institution?
• What are the forces that limit or enable student agency?
• How can institutions of higher education create conditions which best support more enabling forces?

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.

Study, Power and the University provides key reading for educational researchers and developers, academics and higher education managers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah J. Mann is Senior Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Glasgow. She is head of the Academic Development Unit and is responsible for the MEd in Academic Practice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335221130
• ISBN 13: 9780335221134
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible