Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different WorldsIn this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. |
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... attempt to relate postmodernism and the postmodern to education. We have chosen therefore to approach the task obliquely. In this text we proceed by examining certain writers who work within the postmodern moment and whose work has made.
... attempt to relate postmodernism and the postmodern to education. We have chosen therefore to approach the task obliquely. In this text we proceed by examining certain writers who work within the postmodern moment and whose work has made.
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... attempt to declare our own position. We stress that it is 'preliminary', indeed 'provisional' as well, because ... attempted to communicate our interest in the postmodern and to illuminate some of its meanings and significance. Our own ...
... attempt to declare our own position. We stress that it is 'preliminary', indeed 'provisional' as well, because ... attempted to communicate our interest in the postmodern and to illuminate some of its meanings and significance. Our own ...
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... attempt therefore to locate experiential learning in the postmodern moment and to the sociocultural developments that characterise postmodernity. Chapter 11 attempts to bring out the implications of what has gone before for a ...
... attempt therefore to locate experiential learning in the postmodern moment and to the sociocultural developments that characterise postmodernity. Chapter 11 attempts to bring out the implications of what has gone before for a ...
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... attempt to provide a definitive conceptualisation continues to spawn an extensive literature (e.g. Bauman 1992, Best and Kellner 1991, Boyne and Rattansi 1990, Connor 1989, Crook et al. 1992, Featherstone 1991, Foster 1985, Harvey 1991 ...
... attempt to provide a definitive conceptualisation continues to spawn an extensive literature (e.g. Bauman 1992, Best and Kellner 1991, Boyne and Rattansi 1990, Connor 1989, Crook et al. 1992, Featherstone 1991, Foster 1985, Harvey 1991 ...
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... attempt to do so confers upon it a status and identity which it must necessarily oppose. In other words, any attempt at definition must lead to paradox since it is to totalise, to provide a single unified explanation of that which sets ...
... attempt to do so confers upon it a status and identity which it must necessarily oppose. In other words, any attempt at definition must lead to paradox since it is to totalise, to provide a single unified explanation of that which sets ...
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Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards,Robin Usher Limited preview - 2002 |
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