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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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This sharply written book, edited by Blake (Open University, England), argues that a discernible postmodern perspective, most generally associated with Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, and Lyotard, remains relevant to the examination of contemporary educational matters. The authors' primary project is to repudiate misreadings of postmodernism, especially the relativist label often misapplied to these chief exponents. They treat a variety of problematized educational activities and discourses, including the teaching of literacy, the legitimation of educational experts, and the managerial ethos that pervades contemporary schooling. In so doing, they are particularly trenchant in articulating the theoretical legacy of critiques on structuralism and foundationalism. Critical readers might reasonably charge the authors with erecting an intellectual straw man of modernism so as to champion the ideas of postmodern authorities who they frequently (and paradoxically) treat much too deferentially. However, it is difficult to imagine a more lucid analysis, and this collaborative effort may well serve as a primer for advanced undergraduate students looking to venture into this terrain. The concluding "Prospect" anticipates questions likely to be raised by such students, and it will likely compel further discussion. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy of education courses. T. R. Glander; Nazareth College of Rochester
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Series Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Retrospect | p. 1 |
1. Poststructuralism and the Spectre of Relativism | p. 7 |
2. Foundations Demolished, Sovereigns Deposed: The New Politics of Knowledge | p. 21 |
3. The Ascription of Identity | p. 35 |
4. Literacy Under the Microscope | p. 47 |
5. Shifting, Shifted, ... Shattered: The Ethical Self | p. 59 |
6. Giving Someone a Lesson | p. 81 |
7. Telling Stories Out of School | p. 91 |
8. The Responsibility of Desire | p. 111 |
9. Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags | p. 131 |
10. Learning by Heart | p. 145 |
11. The Learning Pharmacy | p. 157 |
12. Reading Education | p. 175 |
Prospect | p. 185 |
References | p. 191 |
Author Index | p. 197 |
Subject Index | p. 199 |