TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thiel,Jonas
TI  - Rating and rankings in higher education: a new-materialist exploration of how they control society 
T2  - Concepts for Critical Psychology
SN  - 9780367815806
U1  - 378.41 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Ratings and rankings
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - College students
KW  - Rating of
KW  - Student evaluation of teachers
KW  - Competition
KW  - Higher education and state
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Education & Training
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology
KW  - National Student Surveys
N1  - Introduction -- Conceptual Foundations: Karen Barad's Agential Realism -- Ratings and Rankings as Apparatuses -- The NSS as a Disciplinary and Neo-Liberal Hybrid -- Divide and Rule: The NSS as an Antagonistic Governmentality -- Governmental Apparatuses of Bodily Production -- Conclusion -- Solidarity, Accelerationism and Utopia
N2  - "This important work critically investigates the use of rating and ranking systems in higher education, to show how they govern the academic population through the creation of competition and antagonism. Engaging with current debates around 'value', tuition fees, and the role of higher education in society, this is fascinating reading for advanced students and academics in psychology, education, sociology, and philosophy"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367815806
ER  -