Students
Changing Roles, Changing Lives (Society for Research into Higher Education)
What it means to be a student has changed as dramatically as higher education itself. It has always meant more than the formal academic role, and this book is concerned with the changes in students' lives, activities and attitudes since the period of student activism in the 1960s and 1970s. The authors have visited universities and colleges, interviewed students and staff, and looked at the records of institutions and students unions. They go beyond past research concerns with learning, attainment and statistics to discuss residence, students unions, clubs and societies, the lives of different constituencies of students, representation, leisure, hardship, part-time employment. They consider the impacts of changes in size, funding, diversity, the idea of community, and the definitions of students as apprentices, customers, consumers, participants. They compare experience in the UK with that in the USA. This is the first book to attempt such a wide-ranging picture of students' lives into the 1990s.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Philosophy. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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- 978-0-3351-9559-6
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- English
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- OL9718116M
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.
Begin with its place in Philosophy, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
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- Which claim challenges one of your familiar assumptions?
- What remains unresolved—and is that uncertainty useful?
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