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

Oxenham, Marvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032926600 ISBN 13: 9781032926605

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032926600
• ISBN 13: 9781032926605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242