Envisioning Education in a Post-Work Leisure-Based Society

Eugene Matusov is Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal. He investigates and works with sociocultural and Bakhtinian dialogic approaches to education.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Necessities-based society and technological education.- 3. Inherent alienation of labor and work.- 4. Changes in the economy: Technological unemployment and creative authorial labor.- 5. Genuine leisure: “Eat to live, don't live to eat”.- 6. Necessity in leisure-based society: Economy, social obligations, and politics.- 7. The cultural value of leisure: Contra and pro.- 8. Education in a leisure-based society.- 9. Students and teachers as authors in a Bakhtinian critical dialogue.- 10. Conclusion: Organization of education in a post-work leisure-based society.

“I … strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in either the future of education or the problems brought on by intelligent technology eliminating a large chunk of existing jobs without providing replacements for the displaced workers. The false hope that the newly unemployed will ‘learn to code’ is naive and out of touch … . We need to talk seriously about these things, and this book provides an informed opening for that discussion.” (J. M. Artz, Computing Reviews, December 9, 2020)