Abstract
In his liquid-turn writings, Zygmunt Bauman has come to identify liquid
modernity as a period of interregnum. Education has a central role to
play within the contemporary interregnum by opening up a new public
sphere for dialogue. However, the processes of liquefaction manifest
themselves in conditions that severely limit a person’s ability to exercise
their human agency. Bauman provides no indication of how the
educators can escape the processes that limit agency, nor does he
explain how educators can combat the seductive consumerism that
students need to overcome before they can engage in a reconstruction of
the public sphere.
Original language | English |
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Journal | British Journal of Sociology of Education |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2015 |
Keywords
- Bauman
- interregnum
- liquid modernity
- paideia
- publicsphere
- 2020