Higher Education in Liquid Modernity

<p>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 <em>paideia</em> 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.</p>