Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith

Thinking Again

Education After Postmodernism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780897895125
• ISBN-10: 0897895126
• Artikelnr.: 21069055

Autorenporträt

NIGEL BLAKE is Lecturer in Educational Technology at The Open University, England. PAUL SMEYERS is Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, at the University of Leuven, Belgium. RICHARD SMITH is Senior Lecturer, School of Education, at the University of Durham, England, and is editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. PAUL STANDISH is Lecturer in Education at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

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