Empowering participants or corroding learning? Towards a research agenda on the impact of student consumerism in higher education

Naidoo, Rajani; Jamieson, Ian

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“…Yet at a time when stakes within the labour market have risen, graduates are likely to demand that this link becomes a more tangible one. These concerns may further feed into students' approaches to HE more generally, increasingly characterised by more instrumental, consumerdriven and acquisitive learning approaches (Naidoo and Jamieson, 2005). Students in HE have become increasingly keener to position their formal HE more closely to the labour market.…”

Section: Graduate Employability and Debates Over The Future Of Workmentioning

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“…Both policymakers and employers have looked to exert a stronger influence on the HE agenda, particularly around its formal provisions, in order to ensure that graduates leaving HE are fit-for-purpose (Teichler, 1999(Teichler, , 2007Harvey, 2000). Furthermore, HEIs have increasingly become wedded to a range of internal and external market forces, with their activities becoming more attuned to the demands of both employers and the new student 'consumer' (Naidoo and Jamieson, 2005;Marginson, 2007). Various stakeholders involved in HE -be they policymakers, employers and paying students -all appear to be demanding clear and tangible outcomes in response to increasing economic stakes.…”

Section: He and The Labour Market: A Gradual Decouplingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes

2012

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of some of the dominant empirical and conceptual themes in the area of graduate employment and employability over the past decade. The paper considers the wider context of higher education (HE) and labour market change, and the policy thinking towards graduate employability. It draws upon various studies to highlight the different labour market perceptions, experiences and outcomes of graduates in the United Kingdom and other national contexts. It further draws upon research that has explored the ways in which students and graduates construct their employability and begin to manage the transition from HE to work. The paper explores some of the conceptual notions that have informed understandings of graduate employability, and argues for a broader understanding of employability than that offered by policymakers.

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Section: Graduate Employability and Debates Over The Future Of Workmentioning

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Section: He and The Labour Market: A Gradual Decouplingmentioning

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Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes

2012

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“…Whilst such concerns may be dismissed by some as historical, more recent publications also raise concerns over corrosion of learning in modular programs (Naidoo & Jamieson, 2005). In general, these concerns can all be considered as variations of segmentalism, where students learn skills or ideas that are connected to the context in which the skills are acquired.…”

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Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Connor¹

2016

IJRSE

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This paper argues that academia is undergoing a crisis, particularly in terms of some institutions experiencing growing student disengagement. Many changes to curriculum design and delivery have been focused on the modularisation of degree programmes to promote greater flexibility for a changing student demographic. This paper suggests that modularisation has the potential to create segmented learning, where students learn particular content in isolation and do not create linkages between knowledge gained across different modules. It is suggested that blurring boundaries between modules can address concerns about segmentalism. It is also suggested that blurring boundaries between other academic structures can also add value, for example the distinction between teaching and research. This paper presents a number of examples of work-in-progress strategies for using the creation of a third space of learning where research is used to generate cumulative learning.

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“…The commoditisation of knowledge was already an established phenomenon documented in the sociology of education before the recent excitement for massive open online education (e.g. Brancaleone & O'Brien, 2011;Kenway et al 1998;Naidoo, 2003;Naidoo & Jamieson, 2005;Newman, 1999). By drawing on ANT's conceptual toolset, our critique is instead framed by the central notion of translation.…”

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The rise of the video-recorder teacher: the sociomaterial construction of an educational actor

Perrotta

Czerniewicz

Beetham

2015

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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This paper draws on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and on the sociology of cultural consumption to examine the phenomenon of corporate Massive Open Online Courses (X-MOOCs). Through the analysis of texts available in the public domain, the paper argues that over a short period (between 2012 and 2013) digitisation technology became associated with the emergence of a hybrid 'actor': the DVR (Digital Video Recorder) Teacher. A parallel is drawn between the 'interactive affordances' of digital instruction and the playback and cataloguing options that have contributed to shifts in TV viewing habits. The DVR teacher is described as an artefact in the service of a postmodern project of self-improvement through cultural consumption, which recruits digitisation to meet a growing demand for 'upgrades to the self'. In the conclusion, the paper explores how the study of digital education could benefit from an interface between sociomaterial studies and the sociology of culture.

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Empowering participants or corroding learning? Towards a research agenda on the impact of student consumerism in higher education

Cited by 260 publications

References 17 publications

Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes

Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

The rise of the video-recorder teacher: the sociomaterial construction of an educational actor

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