{"product_id":"counterpoints-the-education-crisis-paperback","title":"The Learning Society in a Postmodern World: The Education Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShirley R. Steinberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Other), \u003cb\u003eJoe L. Kincheloe\u003c\/b\u003e (Other), \u003cb\u003eKenneth Wain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifelong 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Learning Society in a Postmodern World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Author: Kenneth Wain is Professor of Education at the University of Malta, where he has also served as Dean. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy of education from the University of London, Great Britain. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese National Curriculum: A Critical Evaluation, The Value Crisis, Philosophy of Lifelong Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTheories of Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130398478471,"sku":"9780820468365","price":86.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/23e5e1127a4568c809b725b3e174f713.webp?v=1732610472","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/counterpoints-the-education-crisis-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}