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Thinking Again - Education After Postmodernism (Paperback)
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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.
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