- Author
- Blake, Nigel, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standish
- Publisher
- Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT
- ISBN
- 897895118
- Table of Contents
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Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Retrospect
ch. 1 Poststructuralism and the Spectre of Relativism
ch. 2 Foundations Demolished, Sovereigns Deposed: The New Politics of Knowledge
ch. 3 The Ascription of Identity
ch. 4 Literacy Under the Microscope
ch. 5 Shifting, Shifted, ... Shattered: The Ethical Self
ch. 6 Giving Someone a Lesson
ch. 7 Telling Stories Out of School
ch. 8 The Responsibility of Desire
ch. 9 Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags
ch. 10 Learning by Heart
ch. 11 The Learning Pharmacy
ch. 12 Reading Education
Prospect
References
Author Index
Subject Index
The postmodern condition, in which instrumentalism finally usurps all other considerations, has produced a kind of intellectual paralysis in the world of education. The authors of this book show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education, arguing that educational theory is currently at an impasse. They argue that we need these new and disturbing ideas in order to "think again" fruitfully and creatively about education. (From the Publisher)