Title:
Higher education in liquid modernity
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Series:
Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 30
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2013
Physical Description:
xv, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780415813976
9780203067727
Abstract:
"Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison with ancient Greek "paideia" and medieval university education, producing a sweeping analysis of the history and philosophy of education for the purpose of understanding current higher education, positing a more holisitic alternative model in which students are embedded in a learning commutity that is itself embedded in a larger society. If liquid modernity has left a vacuum where, according to Bauman, the pilot's cabin is empty, this volume argues that no structure is better positioned to fill this vacuum than the university and outlines a renewed vision of social transformation through higher education"--provided by publisher
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