Discovering Radical Contingency

Discovering Radical Contingency Synopsis

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