Students as Consumers of Knowledge: Are They Buying What We're Selling?

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 343-358

  Singleton Jackson, Jill A ^a   Jackson, Dennis L ^a   Reinhardt, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic entitlement; millennials; phenomenology; student entitlement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958090921     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-010-9151-y     Document Type: Article

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