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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... effects of education at both the personal and structural level. Our own attitude to the postmodern is itself ambivalent. At one level, we agree with Couzens Hoy (1988) that in order to be consistently postmodern, one should never call ...
... effects of education at both the personal and structural level. Our own attitude to the postmodern is itself ambivalent. At one level, we agree with Couzens Hoy (1988) that in order to be consistently postmodern, one should never call ...
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... effects, place? (Foster 1985:ix) The postmodern moment is an awareness of being within a way of thinking. The speaker (subject) cannot absolutely name the terms of that moment. (Marshall 1992:3) There is sense here, but not safe sense ...
... effects, place? (Foster 1985:ix) The postmodern moment is an awareness of being within a way of thinking. The speaker (subject) cannot absolutely name the terms of that moment. (Marshall 1992:3) There is sense here, but not safe sense ...
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... effect, in the condition of postmodernity, there is a questioning of the modernist belief in a legitimate and hence legitimating centre upon which beliefs and actions can be grounded. Science and the faith in inevitable progress ...
... effect, in the condition of postmodernity, there is a questioning of the modernist belief in a legitimate and hence legitimating centre upon which beliefs and actions can be grounded. Science and the faith in inevitable progress ...
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... effect rather than a source of the sign and where therefore 'everyday life becomes pervaded with a reality—in TV, adverts, video, communication, the Walkman, cassette decks in automobiles, and now, increasingly, CDs, CDV, and DAT—which ...
... effect rather than a source of the sign and where therefore 'everyday life becomes pervaded with a reality—in TV, adverts, video, communication, the Walkman, cassette decks in automobiles, and now, increasingly, CDs, CDV, and DAT—which ...
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... effects on the other. Thus, unlike many educators who have tended to recognise and deploy only certain allegedly 'resistant' aspects of a postmodern analysis, we do not wish to reject the ludic. On the contrary, we would see it as the ...
... effects on the other. Thus, unlike many educators who have tended to recognise and deploy only certain allegedly 'resistant' aspects of a postmodern analysis, we do not wish to reject the ludic. On the contrary, we would see it as the ...
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Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards,Robin Usher Limited preview - 2002 |
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