Educational research undone : the postmodern embrace
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Bibliographic Information
Educational research undone : the postmodern embrace
Open University Press, 1997
- : hb
- : pbk
Available at 28 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.[177]-188) and index (p.[189]-193)
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780335194339
Description
"This is a provocative, important book. It moves the discourses of postmodernism and deconstructionism to new levels of insight and analysis. Authors Stronach and MacLure perform a major service to the field, showing how these complex discourses can be fitted to the concrete practices of educational research and pedagogy. In so doing they set new goals and priorities for the next generation of educational research and theory"
- Norman K Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Communication, Research Professor of Sociology, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"As intelligent a hearing as postmodernism is likely to receive."
- Professor Ernie House, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder.
This book is the first educational research text in the UK to come to terms with postmodernism and deconstruction, connecting these emerging problematics of 'representation' to issues in philosophy, research methodology, and policy critique, and both providing and criticising its own examples. The authors draw on literary theory, anthropology, and sociology in order to construct alternative ways of reading and writing educational research, claiming that it is with a 'reformed inheritance' that such research can best address the condition of postmodernity as well as the positive and negative aspects of postmodernism. The book will appeal to educational and social researchers, as well as to research students.
Table of Contents
'...Opening...'
Fashioning postmodernism
Jack in two boxes
Eccentric subject, impossible object
Is Halloween postmodern?
Mobilising meaning, demobilising critique?
Can the mothers of invention make virtue out of necessity?
Telling transitions
Untelling transitions
Enclosures
'The mourning after the knight before'
References
Index.
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: hb ISBN 9780335194346
Description
An educational research text, this work explores postmodernism ad deconstructionism connecting these to issues in philosophy, research methodology, and policy critique. The authors draw on literary theory, anthropology and sociology in order to construct alternative ways of reading and writing educational research, claiming that it is with a "reformed inheritance" that such research can address the condition of postmodernity as well as the positive and negative aspects of postmodernism.
Table of Contents
- Fashioning postmodernism
- Jack in two boxes
- eccentric subject, impossible object
- is Halloween postmodern?
- mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique?
- can the mothers of invention make a virtue out of necessity?
- telling transitions
- untelling transitions
- enclosures
- "the mourning after the knight before".
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