The paper highlights the urgent and radical questions and problems which postmodernism
poses for educational studies in general, and the philosophy of education in particular. First …

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 …

This article examines the impact of postmodernism on the philosophy of education. It
explains that one of the most important elements of postmodernity is a growing awareness of …

The big story ('grand narrative') of modernism, according to Jean-François Lyotard, has been
replaced by a whole range of competing 'small stories'. No longer, for example, can the …

Postmodern analyses have appeared with increasing frequency over the last several years.
They have raised a number of important questions about the role of knowledge claims and …

Something dramatic is happening to education in 'new times' but it is not easy to get to grips
with it. Take, for example, the so-called 'postmodern turn'. What is it exactly and do we give …

This paper counters Blake's (1996) claim that educational neo-Marxism 'died'in the 1970s
through demonstrating that there has been a substantial output of neo-Marxist educational …

When I was sixteen I wanted a car desperately; it was all my male friends ever talked about: I
felt excluded. I feel the same about postmodernism. At least having a car is useful. The …

Lyotard (1989, 1992, 1993), Baudrillard (1983, 1990, 1991) or Derrida (1978, 1988), gave
major inputs to the discussion the word 'postmodern'is not even en vogue among these …

The postmodern is a corpus of thought, a manner of theorizing, and one of practicing.
Education as a field of investigation has remained broadly resistant to this tendency and …