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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... gender, ethnicity and autobiographies. In the same way as we have attempted to 'deconstruct' the text of education, readers are invited to deconstruct this text about education. Hopefully, they will find many meanings and problematic ...
... gender, ethnicity and autobiographies. In the same way as we have attempted to 'deconstruct' the text of education, readers are invited to deconstruct this text about education. Hopefully, they will find many meanings and problematic ...
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... gender relations without dualities. By the early 1990s a number of writers (Flax 1990, Hekman 1990, Nicholson 1990) had published critical analyses of the similar yet different concerns of feminist theory and postmodern philosophy. Such ...
... gender relations without dualities. By the early 1990s a number of writers (Flax 1990, Hekman 1990, Nicholson 1990) had published critical analyses of the similar yet different concerns of feminist theory and postmodern philosophy. Such ...
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... gender in the sense that his commitment to resisting totalising discourses puts more stress on resistance to rather than transformation of power relations. Hartsock (1990:173) argues that women need more than resistance: 'we must do our ...
... gender in the sense that his commitment to resisting totalising discourses puts more stress on resistance to rather than transformation of power relations. Hartsock (1990:173) argues that women need more than resistance: 'we must do our ...
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... gender. In contrast to Hartsock, Flax is, however, thoroughly committed to exploring the possibilities of a productive relationship between feminism and postmodernism. Her work is significant in showing that within postmodern discourses ...
... gender. In contrast to Hartsock, Flax is, however, thoroughly committed to exploring the possibilities of a productive relationship between feminism and postmodernism. Her work is significant in showing that within postmodern discourses ...
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... gender, knowledge, power, self and justice; that each is flawed and cannot stand alone as a basis for understanding but together they contribute a number of promising themes and insights. In her discussion of the self she does not seek ...
... gender, knowledge, power, self and justice; that each is flawed and cannot stand alone as a basis for understanding but together they contribute a number of promising themes and insights. In her discussion of the self she does not seek ...
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Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards,Robin Usher Limited preview - 2002 |
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