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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... 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 its face against totalisation. Marshall's ...
... 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 its face against totalisation. Marshall's ...
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... identity as the cultural sphere becomes overloaded with consumption possibilities of which modern sensibilities can no longer make sense. One aspect which many writers focus on is the question of the continuity between modernisation and ...
... identity as the cultural sphere becomes overloaded with consumption possibilities of which modern sensibilities can no longer make sense. One aspect which many writers focus on is the question of the continuity between modernisation and ...
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... identity is formed by a constantly unfolding desire expressed through choices of lifestyle. Thus in postmodernity, the decentring of knowledge is paralleled by the decentring of the subject. The unified subject of modern humanism as an ...
... identity is formed by a constantly unfolding desire expressed through choices of lifestyle. Thus in postmodernity, the decentring of knowledge is paralleled by the decentring of the subject. The unified subject of modern humanism as an ...
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... identities. We have noted the aestheticisation of everyday life as the cultural spreads throughout the social formation. This centrality signals a new cultural paradigm and in this sense postmodernism does indeed break with the past in ...
... identities. We have noted the aestheticisation of everyday life as the cultural spreads throughout the social formation. This centrality signals a new cultural paradigm and in this sense postmodernism does indeed break with the past in ...
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... identity as relational, a matter of subject positioning through discourses or regimes of meaning; an 'active' but not sovereign subject (see Weedon 1987), a subject involved in discursive selfproduction which yet continually strives for ...
... identity as relational, a matter of subject positioning through discourses or regimes of meaning; an 'active' but not sovereign subject (see Weedon 1987), a subject involved in discursive selfproduction which yet continually strives for ...
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Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards,Robin Usher Limited preview - 2002 |
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