Download or read book Higher Education in Liquid Modernity written by Marvin Oxenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison with ancient Greek paideia and medieval university education, producing a sweeping analysis of the history and philosophy ofeducation for the purpose of understanding current higher education, positing a more holisitic alternative model in which students are embedded in a learning commutity that is itself embedded in a larger society. If liquid modernity has left a vacuum where, according to Bauman, the pilot’s cabin is empty, this volume argues that no structure is better positioned to fill this vacuum than the university and outlines a renewed vision of social transformation through higher education.
Download or read book Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity written by Shaun Best and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman’s writings, and examines how researchers have applied his key ideas to explore current theoretical issues. The book focuses on Bauman’s ideas in relation to the management and consumption of education, including topics such as student voice and individual identity; relationships and inclusive education. Identifying and discussing underpinning assumptions about Bauman’s work and its application to education, the book addresses the connection between his work and wider debates, providing a critical and clarifying re-examination of Bauman’s contribution to the role of education within solid, post and liquid modernity. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students of education theory and the sociology of education. It will be of great interest to readers seeking a critical appreciation and application of Bauman’s work to an educational context and Bauman scholars interested in the application of contemporary social theory to education and its role in identity formation in areas such as sex and relationships education.
Download or read book Liquid Education Beer written by Will Hawkes and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing to brewing and pouring the perfect pint. Whether you’re a beer aficionado with your own small-batch brewing in your backyard or you are new to the beer scene, Liquid Education: Beer is the perfect accompaniment to learning all things about everyone’s favorite tipple. Compiled into pint-sized chapters and beautifully illustrated by Daniella Germain, this go-to guide contains everything from the history and stories behind beer making and beer flavor profiles to the rise of the craft-beer movement and the popularity of home brewing. Educate yourself about the wonders of beer!
Download or read book Liquid Education Coffee written by Jason Scheltus and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing and harvesting to making the perfect cup. Do you love a good brew but don't know your robusta from your arabica? Do you wish you could espouse the benefits of your Chemex over a French press? Maybe you just want to make a damn good cup of coffee at home. Liquid Education: Coffee will educate you on everything from growing conditions, bean varieties, picking, drying, and roasting to extraction and brewing, milk selection, and drink types. This comprehensive guide will help you navigate the multitude of beans, blends, and equipment available to make your way to your perfect cup.
Download or read book Higher Education in Liquid Modernity written by Marvin Oxenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison with ancient Greek paideia and medieval university education, producing a sweeping analysis of the history and philosophy ofeducation for the purpose of understanding current higher education, positing a more holisitic alternative model in which students are embedded in a learning commutity that is itself embedded in a larger society. If liquid modernity has left a vacuum where, according to Bauman, the pilot’s cabin is empty, this volume argues that no structure is better positioned to fill this vacuum than the university and outlines a renewed vision of social transformation through higher education.
Download or read book Evaluating Mental Workload for Improved Workplace Performance written by Realyvásquez-Vargas, Arturo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employees of different labor sectors are involved in different projects and pressed to deliver results in a specific period of time, which increases their mental workload. This increase can lead to a high mental workload, which in turn leads to a decline in job performance. Therefore, strategies for managing mental workload and promoting mental health have become necessary for corporate success. Evaluating Mental Workload for Improved Workplace Performance is a critical scholarly book that provides comprehensive research on mental workload and the effects, both adverse and positive, that it can have on employee populations as well as strategies for decreasing or deleting it from the labor sector. Highlighting an array of topics such as psychosocial factors, critical success factors (CSF), and technostress, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, managers, ergonomists, engineers, industrial designers, industry practitioners, and students.
Download or read book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly written by New South Wales. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.
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Download or read book The Properties of Gases and Liquids 5E written by Bruce E. Poling and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000-11-27 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must-have reference for processes involving liquids, gases, and mixtures Reap the time-saving, mistake-avoiding benefits enjoyed by thousands of chemical and process design engineers, research scientists, and educators. Properties of Gases and Liquids, Fifth Edition, is an all-inclusive, critical survey of the most reliable estimating methods in use today --now completely rewritten and reorganized by Bruce Poling, John Prausnitz, and John O’Connell to reflect every late-breaking development. You get on-the-spot information for estimating both physical and thermodynamic properties in the absence of experimental data with this property data bank of 600+ compound constants. Bridge the gap between theory and practice with this trusted, irreplaceable, and expert-authored expert guide -- the only book that includes a critical analysis of existing methods as well as hands-on practical recommendations. Areas covered include pure component constants; thermodynamic properties of ideal gases, pure components and mixtures; pressure-volume-temperature relationships; vapor pressures and enthalpies of vaporization of pure fluids; fluid phase equilibria in multicomponent systems; viscosity; thermal conductivity;diffusion coefficients; and surface tension.
Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Download or read book Liquid Rocket and Propellants written by L.E. Bollinger and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid Rocket and Propellants
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Download or read book Rethinking Learning in an Age of Digital Fluency written by Maggi Savin-Baden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that I am going to have to own, and will work to find contexts in which to recommend. It cuts obliquely through so many important domains of evidence and scholarship that it cannot but be a valuable stimulus" -Hamish Macleod, University of Edinburgh Digital connectivity is a phenomenon of the 21st century and while many have debated its impact on society, few have researched relationship between the changes taking place and the actual impact on learning. Rethinking Learning in an Age of Digital Fluency examines what kind of impact an increasingly connected environment is having on learning and what kind of culture it is creating within learning settings. Engagement with digital media and navigating through digital spaces with ease is something that many young people appear to do well, although the tangible benefits of this are unclear. This book, therefore, will present an overview of current research and practice in the area of digital tethering, whilst examining how it could be used to harness new learning and engagement practices that are fit for the modern age. Questions that the book also addresses include: Is being digital tethered a new learning nexus? Are social networking sites spaces for co-production of knowledge and spaces of inclusive learning? Are students who are digitally tethered creating new learning maps and pedagogies? Does digital tethering enable students to use digital media to create new learning spaces? This fascinating and at times controversial text engages with numerous aspects of digital learning amongst undergraduate students including mobile learning, individual and collaborative learning, viral networking, self-publication and identity dissemination. It will be of enormous interest to researchers and students in education and educational psychology.
Download or read book Education and Immigration written by Grace Kao and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a crucially important social institution, closely correlated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychological well-being, and health outcomes. Moreover, for children of immigrants – who account for almost one in four school-aged children in the U.S. – it is the primary means through which they become incorporated into American society. This insightful new book explores the educational outcomes of post-1965 immigrants and their children. Tracing the historical context and key contemporary scholarship on immigration, the authors examine issues such as structural versus cultural theories of education stratification, the overlap of immigrant status with race and ethnicity, and the role of language in educational outcomes. Throughout, the authors pay attention to the great diversity among immigrants: some arrive with PhDs to work as research professors, while others arrive with a primary school education and no English skills to work as migrant laborers. As immigrants come from an ever-increasing array of races, ethnicities, and national origins, immigrant assimilation is more complex than ever before, and education is central to their adaptation to American society. Shedding light on often misunderstood topics, this book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses in sociology of education, immigration, and race and ethnicity.
Download or read book Liquid Education written by Marvin Oxenham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical changes facing higher education today are such that some critics have announced its complete demise. My thesis addresses this litany of alarm by critically assessing a current trend in educational philosophy that I have branded "liquid education". -- I begin by formulating a theoretical definition of liquid education grounded in Zygmunt Bauman's work on liquid modernity and proceed to describe key concepts and practices of liquid education through a systematic comparison with Greek HaiSeia and the medieval university. I also provide philosophical and historical narratives leading to liquid education and offer examples of evidence to demonstrate the actuality of the theory and practice of liquid education. In my evaluation section, I develop a set of critiques that arise from within the tradition of liquid modernity and apply them to education. Bauman has described these as the "inferno of education". Although prescription is beyond the scope of my thesis, I conclude by suggesting a set of transformative conversations. -- Since Bauman has not written extensively on the subject of education, my thesis contributes to existing knowledge by developing a conversation between Bauman's sociology and educational philosophy. My thesis is important because of higher education's role in social transformation. If liquid modernity has left a vacuum where "the pilot's cabin is empty" (Bauman 2000: 133), no structure is better positioned to fan the cultural flame of society than the university. My hope is to advance reflection in educational philosophy and contribute to a renewed vision of higher education.
