| Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Editor), Kincheloe, Joe L. (Editor), Bagnall, Richard G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820440019 ISBN-13: 9780820440019 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Adult & Continuing Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Aims & Objectives |
| Dewey: 374 |
| LCCN: 97048800 |
| Series: Counterpoints |
| Physical Information: 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Discovering Radical Contingency" examines the implications of postmodern culture for education, particularly those involving adult learners. Against a critical review of modernist culture and education, a comparative account of the postmodern is posited. That account is reconfigured as a set of six tensions. These tensions are then used in exploring the nature of educational practice and engagement in postmodernity, from different perspectives: through dialogues with students of that practice; through case studies of practice; as descriptive tendencies of engagement; and as nodal forms of programmatic activity. The book closes with chapters examining the nature of educational research and the professional development of adult educators in postmodernity. |