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The Learning Society in a Postmodern World - The Education Crisis (Paperback)
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The Learning Society in a Postmodern World - The Education Crisis (Paperback)
Series: Counterpoints, 260
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Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of
educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the
learning society. The shift started in the mid 1960s and early
1970s under the impetus of a group of writers and adult educators,
gravitating around UNESCO, with a humanist philosophy and a leftist
agenda. The vocabulary of that movement was appropriated in the
1990s by other interests with a very different performativist
agenda emphasizing effectiveness and economic outcomes. This change
of interest, described in the book, has signified the death of
education. The Learning Society in a Postmodern World explores
different theoretical resources to respond to this situation,
mainly those that propose some restoration of an educated public
or, to the contrary, individual self-creation, and uses the works
of a broad range of philosophers and thinkers--notably MacIntyre,
Habermas, Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, and Baudrillard. In addition,
it raises important questions about postmodern and
poststructuralist responses to education in the postmodern world.
Its comprehensiveness and historical background make it an
essential textbook for theoretical courses in lifelong learning and
in educational theory in general. A broad range of interests and
subject matter make it important reading for educators, policy
specialists, media specialists, researchers on the subject of
lifelong learning and on the relation between education and the
postmodern world, political theorists, philosophers, and
philosophers of education.
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