Student Attainment in Higher Education: Issues, controversies and debates / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781138844476 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 02/17/2016 Pages: 236 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) Student Attainment in Higher Education: Issues, controversies and debates is a timely exploration of student attainment in a rapidly changing higher education context and a rapidly changing world. The effects of neoliberalism and the commercialization of everyday life on education have been well documented, but with a focus on pedagogy, whilst student success is measured through grades, statistics and metrics. By exploring attainment in a broader context, this book provides a unique contribution to the critical literature on contemporary higher education. Within the themes of understanding attainment and challenging practice, the book sets out to explore student attainment as complex and multifaceted. It achieves this by looking at different conceptualizations of what attainment means and to whom; how attainment is shaped by different and often co