Describes four tensions in postmodern continuing education practice: aggregation versus fragmentation, consistency versus flexibility, description versus evaluation, and associationality versus immediacy. Explains the two opposing inclinations in these concepts: there are good reasons following each one, but doing so limits the possibility of…

Tenets of postmodernism are the interpretive nature of perception and the cultural contingency of belief. Postmodernist adult education would be reflexively contextualized, indeterminate, expressive, participative, heterodox, and critical. Strongly postmodernist practice would lack any common vision, goals, principles, or procedural values needed…

Concepts of discrimination or judgment in modernism are problematized by postmodernism. The modernist search for timeless universal principles of practice must be replaced by postmodernist striving for situational subjectivity, based on critical self-awareness and tolerance of others' beliefs. (Author/SK)

Examines moral education in a postmodern cultural context, where there is a privatization of moral responsibility. Building upon a critique of modernist ethics and moral education, five types of response to privatization are postulated and evaluated. Presents the notion of situational sensitivity as defining an appropriate curriculum for…

This book examines the implications of postmodern culture for adult education through a review of modernist culture and education and a comparative account of modernist and postmodernist culture that is configured as a set of six tensions in three domains: belief (situatedness and ambiguity); individual identity (determination and control); and…