Thinking again : education after postmodernism
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Thinking again : education after postmodernism
(Critical studies in education and culture series)
Bergin & Garvey, 1998
- :[hc]
- :pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-195) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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:[hc] ISBN 9780897895118
Description
The 'postmodern condition,' in which instrumentalism usurps all other considerations, has produced a kind of intellectual paralysis in the world of education. It is difficult to take issue with such shibboleths of our time as 'standards', 'effectiveness' or 'quality', or the transmission of a nation's 'heritage', yet many people sense that important values are being lost as the education systems of the developed world increasingly devote themselves to managerialism and 'performativity', the quest for efficiency and effectiveness that can be quantified.
This book shows how a sustained and telling critique of current educational policy and practice can be developed from the writings of such postmodern thinkers as Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan. These thinkers show us new directions, making what has become over-familiar in education seem strange, and they shake us out of established ways of thinking and writing. The book reveals how very different certain aspects of education-for instance, literacy, moral education (in the home as well as the school), curriculum policy and planning-look in the light of these ideas. The book makes many of the central ideas of postmodern theory accessible by demonstrating their relevance to familiar aspects of the practice of education.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword Preface Retrospect Poststructuralism and the Spectre of Relativism Foundations Demolished, Sovereigns Deposed: The New Politics of Knowledge The Ascription of Identity Literacy Under the Microscope Shifting, Shifted...Shattered: The Ethical Self Giving Someone A Lesson Telling Stories Out of School The Responsibility of Desire Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags Learning by Heart The Learning Pharmacy Reading Education Prospect References Author and Subject Indexes
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:pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780897895125
Description
The 'postmodern condition,' in which instrumentalism usurps all other considerations, has produced a kind of intellectual paralysis in the world of education. It is difficult to take issue with such shibboleths of our time as 'standards', 'effectiveness' or 'quality', or the transmission of a nation's 'heritage', yet many people sense that important values are being lost as the education systems of the developed world increasingly devote themselves to managerialism and 'performativity', the quest for efficiency and effectiveness that can be quantified.
This book shows how a sustained and telling critique of current educational policy and practice can be developed from the writings of such postmodern thinkers as Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan. These thinkers show us new directions, making what has become over-familiar in education seem strange, and they shake us out of established ways of thinking and writing. The book reveals how very different certain aspects of education—for instance, literacy, moral education (in the home as well as the school), curriculum policy and planning—look in the light of these ideas. The book makes many of the central ideas of postmodern theory accessible by demonstrating their relevance to familiar aspects of the practice of education.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Preface
Retrospect
Poststructuralism and the Spectre of Relativism
Foundations Demolished, Sovereigns Deposed: The New Politics of Knowledge
The Ascription of Identity
Literacy Under the Microscope
Shifting, Shifted…Shattered: The Ethical Self
Giving Someone A Lesson
Telling Stories Out of School
The Responsibility of Desire
Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags
Learning by Heart
The Learning Pharmacy
Reading Education
Prospect
References
Author and Subject Indexes
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