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The learning society in a postmodern world : the education crisis / Kenneth Wain. [electronic resource]

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wain, Kenneth.
Series:
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 260.
Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 260
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Continuing education--Philosophy.
Continuing education.
Adult learning.
Postmodernism and education.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 362 p. )
Place of Publication:
New York : P. Lang, c2004.
Language Note:
English
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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