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- Title
Liquefied or blended: a university for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.
- Authors
Davies, Richard
- Abstract
The discourse of 'student as consumer' is largely reviled in academic literature, and is dominated by assumptions that such a discourse undermines the possibility of students receiving a legitimate form of higher education. In this paper I argue that such a rejection is unnecessary. Locating the discourse in the wider cultural shift of 'liquid modernity' and the historic negotiation of universities between their need to be both cultural attuned and counter-cultural, I argue for a more nuanced account of the university with in 'liquidly modern culture'. I conclude with a consideration of the implications for university's conceptions of their task and their practice.
- Subjects
STUDENTS as consumers; COLLEGE students; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; SOCIAL change; HIGHER education
- Publication
Gateway Papers, 2012, p83
- ISSN
2044-852X
- Publication type
Article