ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part |11 pages
Exordium
chapter |9 pages
Higher Education and Change
part |39 pages
Narratio
chapter |22 pages
Liquid Modernity
chapter |15 pages
Liquid Education
part |87 pages
Confirmatio
chapter |20 pages
Liquefied Authority
chapter |20 pages
Liquefied Culture
chapter |23 pages
Liquefied Reason
chapter |22 pages
Liquefied Structure
part |42 pages
Reprehensio
chapter |4 pages
Introducing the Inferno
chapter |13 pages
Emaciated Education
chapter |10 pages
Education in the Empty Agora
chapter |6 pages
Consuming Education
chapter |7 pages
Educational Anxiety
part |15 pages
Conclusio