TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oxenham,Marvin
TI  - Higher education in liquid modernity
T2  - Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education
SN  - 9780415813976 (hardback)
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Postmodernism and higher education
KW  - Holistic education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - '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 of education 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'--
ER  -