ABOUT BOOK

Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way ~we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. ~Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, ~this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical framework that ~will serve as a comprehensive resource for critical reflection on the relationship ~between the experience of time and emancipatory education. ~Drawing upon time and rhythm studies, complexity theories and educational ~research, Alhadeff-Jones reflects upon the temporal and rhythmic dimensions ~of education to (re)theorize and address current societal and educational challenges. ~The book is divided into three parts. The first begins by discussing the ~specificities inherent to the study of time in educational sciences. The second ~contextualizes the evolution of temporal constraints that determine the ways ~education is institutionalized, organized and experienced. The third and final ~part questions the meanings of emancipatory education in a context of temporal ~alienation. ~This is the first book to provide a broad overview of European and North ~American theories that inform both the ideas of time and rhythm in educational ~sciences, from school instruction, curriculum design and arts education ~to vocational training, lifelong learning and educational policies. It will be of ~key interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of ~philosophy of education, sociology of education, history of education, psychology, ~curriculum and learning theory and adult education.