1st Edition
Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation The Possibilities of Posthumanistic Education
Introduction: Theorizing in the Midst of Chaos 1. For the Greater Glory of God: St. Ignatius Loyola and the First Global Network of Education 2. Hyperreality: At the Threshold of Posthumanistic Theory 3. The Posthumanist Gaze: The Human Subject, Decentered 4. Posthumanistic Education: Teaching as "Awakening" Epilogue: Against a Pataphysical Future: The Will of the Human Subject
Biography
Brad Petitfils teaches at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. His research focuses on hyperreality and posthumanism and the ways these theories affect the undergraduate classroom and the development of young adults. He teaches First-Year Seminars and is the co-director of Loyola’s summer abroad program in Paris, France.
"Brad Petitfils’ Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation: The Possibilities of Posthumanistic Education is the best critique of technology in education I have seen, and I have seen several. What is being done to the young in the name of educational ‘innovation’ is distressing. Petitfils charts a sensible course for educators and administrators. If you read one book this year, make this one it."
--William F. Pinar, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, Canada
