Outputs (2)

Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology (2018)
Journal Article
Raaper, R. (2019). Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2018.1456421

The notion of students as consumers who exercise educational decisions based on economic self-interest leads to interesting questions about their perceptions of current higher education assessment practices. Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation and t... Read More about Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology.

Students’ Unions and Consumerist Policy Discourses in English Higher Education (2018)
Journal Article
Raaper, R. (2020). Students’ Unions and Consumerist Policy Discourses in English Higher Education. Critical Studies in Education, 61(2), 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2017.1417877

This article centres on the recent Higher Education and Research Act 2017 in England and the consultation documents leading to the legislation. I will start by arguing that the reform promotes consumerist understanding of students. Guided by Fairclou... Read More about Students’ Unions and Consumerist Policy Discourses in English Higher Education.