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 comparison with ancient Greek <em>paideia </em>and medieval university education producing a sweeping analysis of the history and philosophy of education for the purpose of understanding higher education positing a more holisitic alternative model in which students are embedded in a learning community that is itself embedded in a larger society. This volume outlines a renewed vision of social transformation through higher education.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>