242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I: Exordium 1. Higher Education and Change Part II: Narratio: The Definition of Liquid Education 2. Liquid Modernity 3. Liquid Education Part III: Confirmatio: The Reality of Liquid Education 4. Liquefied Authority 5. Liquefied Culture 6. Liquefied Reason 7. Liquefied Structure Part IV: Reprehensio: The Inferno of Liquid Education 8. Introducing the Inferno 9. Emaciated Education 10. Education in the Empty Agora 11. Consuming Education 12. Educational Anxiety 13. Responding to Liquid Education
Biography
Marvin Oxenham is in the Education department at Kings College London, UK.
