The learning society in a postmodern world : the education crisis / Kenneth Wain.

Author/Creator:

Wain, Kenneth.

Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2004.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.); v. 260.
Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education ; vol. 260

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 362 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Continuing education -- Philosophy.
Adult learning.
Postmodernism and education.

Contents:

The lifelong education movement : the learning society as utopia
Death of the movement : the learning society as postmodern myth
Macintyre's educated public
Habermas, the rational society
The learning society and the third way
The politics of hope
The politics of suspicion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-350) and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820468363 (pbk.)

OCLC:

52178936

Web link:

The James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund Home Page

Online:

Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009948.html

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