Discovering radical contingency : building a postmodern agenda in adult education
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Discovering radical contingency : building a postmodern agenda in adult education
(Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education, vol. 81)
P. Lang, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-228) and index
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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.
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