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What is Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education (Counterpoints - Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education , Vol 81) about?

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. Pt. 1. Modernity And Modernist Adult Education. Ch. 1. The Modernist Inheritance 1: Thinking And Being In A Straitjacket. Ch. 2. The Modernist Inheritance 2: Denying Adult Education -- Pt. 2. Postmodernity. Ch. 3. Postmodernity 1: Seeing, Believing, And Being In A Fractured World. Ch. 4. Postmodernity 2: Conversation And Hope In A Cultural Implosion. Ch. 5. Formal Tensions, Contingent Realities: Reconfiguring The Problematic -- Pt. 3

Author

Bagnall, R. G. (richard Gordon) , 1946-

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing, 275 Seventh Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10001-6708 ($29.95). Tel: 800-770-5264 (Toll Free)

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820440019

Subjects

Education