On Education: Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo - Softcover

Bauman, Zygmunt; Mazzeo, Riccardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745661564 ISBN 13: 9780745661568

Publisher: Polity Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this short book Zygmunt Bauman – the leading social theorist of our liquid modern world, here in conversation with Riccardo Mazzeo – reflects on the predicament of young people today and on the role of education and the educator in a world where the certainties of our predecessors can no longer be taken for granted.

About this title

Review:

"Bauman's knack for placing things in context and accounting for that uneasy feeling you get from this or that current development makes [On Education] stimulating."
Inside Higher Ed

"When graduates can't find jobs, the bargain of commercialised education - take out enormous student loans that will be repaid by your supposedly high salary later on - breaks down. So worries the sociologist Bauman, in a perky and colourful written interview with the Italian publisher Mazzeo. Even so, Bauman remains hopeful about the 'openness' of mind ideally encouraged by schooling - indeed, as he points out sharply, it is not 'practical' otherwise."
Steven Poole, The Guardian

About the Author:

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. His many publications include Liquid Modernity, Liquid Love, The Art of Life, Living on Borrowed Time and, most recently, This Is Not a Diary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745661564
• ISBN 13: 9780745661568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100