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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... notion of systematic explanation. The task, then, of seeing education in a postmodern perspective is rendered particularly difficult if the very notion of a postmodern perspective is itself problematic. Second, the term 'postmodernism ...
... notion of systematic explanation. The task, then, of seeing education in a postmodern perspective is rendered particularly difficult if the very notion of a postmodern perspective is itself problematic. Second, the term 'postmodernism ...
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... notions of foundations, disciplines and scientificity. We would argue that this confrontation provides the conceptual resources for thinking anew the effects of education at both the personal and structural level. Our own attitude to ...
... notions of foundations, disciplines and scientificity. We would argue that this confrontation provides the conceptual resources for thinking anew the effects of education at both the personal and structural level. Our own attitude to ...
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... notion of emancipation in the project of modernity and to show its oppressive assumptions and consequences, particularly in and through education. Education is perhaps the most important way we relate to the world, to the way we ...
... notion of emancipation in the project of modernity and to show its oppressive assumptions and consequences, particularly in and through education. Education is perhaps the most important way we relate to the world, to the way we ...
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... notion of a postculture, 'postindustrial' society and the changes produced by information technology, particularly in the sphere of global communications and media. It is an epoch of postFordism or 'flexible specialisation' (see Harvey ...
... notion of a postculture, 'postindustrial' society and the changes produced by information technology, particularly in the sphere of global communications and media. It is an epoch of postFordism or 'flexible specialisation' (see Harvey ...
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... notion that postmodernity represents a break with modernity is itself contentious. Other writers (e.g. Harvey 1991, Jameson 1984) have therefore argued that postmodernity is a continuation of modernity. Lyotard (1984) has argued that it ...
... notion that postmodernity represents a break with modernity is itself contentious. Other writers (e.g. Harvey 1991, Jameson 1984) have therefore argued that postmodernity is a continuation of modernity. Lyotard (1984) has argued that it ...
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Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds Richard Edwards,Robin Usher Limited preview - 2002 |
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