Higher Education in Liquid Modernity [Hardcover]

Based in sociologist Zygmunt Baumans 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 paideiaand 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 pilots 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.

 

 

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