Literature Review Blog #5
1.) Visual: 2.) Citation: Calabrese, Vincent. "The Student as a Consumer and the Death of the Human Mind." The Student as a Consumer and the Death of the Human Mind . N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 28 Nov. 2017. 3.) Summary: This article relates obtaining a degree and attending college to a consumer buying a product, in this case the product being the degree and college being “market-led”. It is argued that a student when placed in this environment will likely approach learning passively and fail to actually become engaged and interested in their education. The concept of consumerism in the environment of a university causes students to develop a reliability for fulfillment. Students want to get a degree to have job security in their futures and have occupations that offer high salaries. Striving to become successful and having a materialistic mindset will cause you to have low enthusiasm, unhappiness, and many other pyschological problems. This eventually causes...
