Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism

by Paul Smeyers, Nigel Blake, Richard Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895118
• ISBN13: 9780897895118
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"