Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds
- ISBN-10
- 1134851162
- ISBN-13
- 9781134851164
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-11-01
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Richard Edwards, Robin Usher
Description
In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.
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