Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 1-16

  Raaper, Rille ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consumerism; discourse analysis; Higher education; neoliberalism; student assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044437841     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2018.1456421     Document Type: Article

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