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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... modernism particularly in the arts and architecture. In some ways, it is easier to discern what it is against than what it is for. Perhaps it is best understood as a state of mind, a critical, selfreferential posture and style, a ...
... modernism particularly in the arts and architecture. In some ways, it is easier to discern what it is against than what it is for. Perhaps it is best understood as a state of mind, a critical, selfreferential posture and style, a ...
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... modernism; it must insist on being recognised as a set of viewpoints of a time, justifiable only within its own time. (Nicholson 1990:11) To talk about postmodernity, postmodernism or the postmodern is not therefore to designate some ...
... modernism; it must insist on being recognised as a set of viewpoints of a time, justifiable only within its own time. (Nicholson 1990:11) To talk about postmodernity, postmodernism or the postmodern is not therefore to designate some ...
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... modernist. In defining and delineating a period through its characteristics, one has already moved beyond it. The present cannot therefore understand itself as a period other than through a modernist 'metabelief that it is another ...
... modernist. In defining and delineating a period through its characteristics, one has already moved beyond it. The present cannot therefore understand itself as a period other than through a modernist 'metabelief that it is another ...
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Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards, Robin Usher. 'by disrupting the modernist assumption that periods are selfcontained unities or coherent wholes clearly individuated from one ... modernist assumption that periods are ...
Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards, Robin Usher. 'by disrupting the modernist assumption that periods are selfcontained unities or coherent wholes clearly individuated from one ... modernist assumption that periods are ...
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... modernist scientificity with its emphasis on the universal efficacy of scientific method and of the stance of objectivity and valueneutrality in the making of knowledgeclaims. As Lather (1992:90) puts it: 'foregrounded as an ideological ...
... modernist scientificity with its emphasis on the universal efficacy of scientific method and of the stance of objectivity and valueneutrality in the making of knowledgeclaims. As Lather (1992:90) puts it: 'foregrounded as an ideological ...
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