Postmodernism

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Postmodernism

• By
• Jayla Pennell
• Samantha McGough

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Postmodernism

• Postmodernism is not clearly defined, there are
  no fixed meanings to words.
• Postmodernism means different things to different
  people.
• Only what people think or say is the reality.

Words no fixed meaning
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History

• Jameson
• Thought that an important factor in the arrival
  of postmodernism was the upheavals of the 1960s,
  when the assumed truths of the time where brought
  into question and various experiments in
  offensive lifestyles and outlooks became
  prominent.
• For example, the minorities and people in the
  third world countries took up new identities on
  the sidelines of dominate countries.

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Aims of Education

• Giroux
• Stresses that ethics must be a central concern to
  critical education, particularly the different
  ethical discourses that offer student a richer
  fund of meanings and help them relate to
  diversity in a wider society.
• This enables students to understand how an
  individuals experience is influenced by
  different ethical discourses and how ethical
  relations are formed between the self an others,
  including others of different backgrounds,
  origin, and perspective.

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Aims Cont.

• The basic function of this process is to engage
  students in social discourse that helps them
  reject needless human suffering and exploitation
• The purpose is to develop a social sense of
  responsibility for others, including those
  considered outsiders on the margins of social
  life.

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Aims

• McLaren
• Makes the point that education should result in
  self- and social empowerment.
• He believes that students need to become educated
  in social and technical knowledge before they can
  become effective moral agents.
• Main point is to commit student to social And
  self- transformation

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Methods

• Postmodernist note an aggressive conservatism
  that has taken the initiative in education,
  redefining the curriculum by waging the cultural
  war in schools against liberal and leftist ideas.
  
• Postmodernist reject distinctions between high
  and low culture and maintain that the popular
  culture ( such as entertainment media, popular
  novels, and rock music) is disserving of study.

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Methods

• Postmodernist spurn intellectual elites who set
  themselves above history and attempt get it
  right for the rest of the people.

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Curriculum

• From the Postmodernist critical perspectives, the
  issue is not simply an argument for or against a
  curriculum composed of established canons of
  knowledge, but one that remakes the meanings and
  use of canons of knowledge.

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Role of the Teacher

• Postmodernist call for a critical pedagogy that
  views teachers as cultural workers who are
  transformative intellectuals occupying special
  political and social roles.
• Postmodernist want to define the role of the
  teacher as cultural workers who produce more
  appropriate social ideologies and practices.
• Also that students should become critical and
  responsible members of a democracy.

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• The End
• Are you lost yet?