caa a22 4500 445848235 CHVBK 20180317145405.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11217-011-9231-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11217-011-9231-1 Quill Lawrence Department of Political Science, San Jose State University, 95192, San Jose, CA, USA aut The Disappearance of Adulthood [Elektronische Daten] [Lawrence Quill] In 1982, Neil Postman wrote The Disappearance of Childhood. In that work, Postman recounted the invention of childhood in the modern world and its demise at the hands of, among other things, the electronic media (principally television). In Postman's view, television had transformed education into ‘edutainment.' The implications of this loss were devastating. Taking up where Postman left off I wish to reexamine his claim and amend and update his thesis by suggesting that, after the latest electronic turn, we now live in societies where a meaningful conception of adulthood is disappearing. It is disappearing, in part, because of an impoverished conception of citizenship. Yet it is additionally undermined because, claims to the ascendancy of the ‘knowledge worker' notwithstanding, the fundamental connection between education and employment is unraveling. In this climate, the purposes of education are constantly queried and scrutinized as its telos is redefined by criteria external to the practice of education: cost-effectiveness, value-for-money, and so on. I suggest that only be reclaiming a meaningful conception of adulthood can education be defended and only by so doing can individuals hope to understand the world around them. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Postman nationallicence Knowledge worker nationallicence Childhood nationallicence Adulthood nationallicence Universities nationallicence Studies in Philosophy and Education Springer Netherlands 30/4(2011-07-01), 327-341 0039-3746 30:4<327 2011 30 11217 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9231-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9231-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Quill Lawrence Department of Political Science, San Jose State University, 95192, San Jose, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in Philosophy and Education Springer Netherlands 30/4(2011-07-01), 327-341 0039-3746 30:4<327 2011 30 11217 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer