Higher Education in Liquid Modernity (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education) - Hardcover

Oxenham, Marvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415813972 ISBN 13: 9780415813976

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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 ofeducation 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.

 

 

About this title

About the Author:

Marvin Oxenham is in the Education department at Kings College London, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415813972
• ISBN 13: 9780415813976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226