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After Postmodernism Education, Politics And Identity
264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work presents a set of thematic essays aimed at clarifying the educational problems and paradoxes of postmodern educational conditions and theory. The major concerns of the book are the possibility of achieving substantive political objectives and of theorising such possiblities. These concerns arise from a dissatisfaction with the organisational and political conditions of postmodern... Read more
Part I Theory of Education: Liberalism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Politics Robert Young; Fading Post Structuralisms - Post-Ford, Post- Human, Post-Education? John Knight; Having a Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst Jane Kenaway; After Postmodernism - A New Age Social Theory in Education Philip Wexler. Part II Pedagogy: Getting our Hands Dirty - Provisional Politics in Postmodern Conditions Allan Luke; Foucault's Post Structuralism and Observational Education Research Jennifer Gore; Keeping an Untidy House - A Disjointed Paper about Academic Space, Work and Bodies Wendy Morgan and Erica William. Part III Identity: Stories In and Out of Class - Knowledge, Identity and Schooling Lindsay Fitzclarence, Bill Green and Chris Bigum; Corporatism, Self and Identity within Moral Orders Robert Funnell; Voicing the Other, Speaking for the Self Parlo Singh. Part IV Politics: Educational Intellectuals and Corporate Politics James Ladwig; Academic Work Intensification - Beyond Postmodernism Richard Smith and Judyth Sachs; Epilogue - From the Inside Out Philip Wexler.
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Richard Smith, Philip Wexler
