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Terri Seddon is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia. She Terri Seddon’s research focuses on contemporary changes in work and learning, and the implications for pedagogy, the organization and politics of educational work, and the nature of professional education. Zusammenfassung Over the last 30 years the effects of economic globalisation have transformed education and its relationship to work and everyday working lives. Market reform and the appropriation of ‘learning’ to fuel the knowledge economy produced a lifelong learning educational order, complemented by social inclusion to manage residual and resistant populations. In the process education was decentred, learning spaces were diversified within an education market that served the world of work. Educators were remaindered by a rising tide of coaches, counsellors, learning managers and mentors who ‘facilitate’ rather than ‘teach’. In this groundbreaking book the author contextualises these changes as a way of re-reading our times and its educational effects. The chapters examine the interface of policy and practice and map the shifting relations between educational work and social organisations of learning by developing three key themes: Liquid learning : drawing on Bauman’s characterisation of ‘liquid modernity’, the concept of liquid leaning details the cultural conditions that confront educators and those who seek to use education as a social instrument to address economic, social, cultural, environmental and political development Making spaces of orientation : designing and realising strategies to address the challenges of "liquid modernity" Educational work : considering the specialist expertise that educators as an occupational group bring to the challenges of liquid learning. ...
