Responds to commentaries by Robert Jensen and Deborah Britzman on the relationship between researcher and researched. Argues against a number of the discussants' points. Suggests that it may be futile to attempt to "know" others, but it is important to engage them in conversation as a means of understanding. (DSK)

Examines how educators concerned with America's educational inequality participate in the development of postmodern explanations of education and society that legitimize multiple perspectives on events and institutions and the ways that subordinated groups describe their own experiences. Discusses: the social construction of race and ethnicity,…

Examines educational change from the perspective of differing research and development paradigms. Describes total quality management, zero defects management, systems thinking, and implications of these paradigms. Also discusses postmodernism, constructivism, and the future for development in education. (AEF)

The effects of the knowledge revolution on the disciplinary structure of the humanities and social sciences are examined, particularly as they concern pedagogy surrounding the doctoral degree, the highest level of accreditation for university teaching. Potential changes in the doctoral dissertation are discussed in this context. Application of the…

Describes a team-taught, interdisciplinary college honors course on politics and literature, including the origins and theoretical underpinning of the course, issues related to the intersection of the disciplines, evolution of the teacher's role in the course, and outcomes. Concludes that despite the difficulties of interdisciplinary team…

Discusses the need to train clinical practitioners in social work to address ongoing issues of oppression. Describes a second-year Master's in Social Work clinical practice sequence taught from feminist, poststructuralist, postmodern, and social constructionist perspectives, where students learn to assess the impacts of oppression, discover…

Responds to a reaction (issue 50 number 1 p5) to the author's original paper, "Toward a Post-Modern Agenda in Instructional Technology" (2000). Contributes to the dialogue about culture and learning in instructional technology (IT). Reviews opportunities. Suggests philosophical implications for IT, derived from the author's own research on…

Narrative approaches to teaching multicultural counseling can assist students in integrating course content with a sense of self. Narrative teaching strategies follow a postmodern view of learning--that is, that truth is constructed through the interaction of participants. Justification for narrative approaches to teaching, multicultural…

Demonstrates how the postmodern picture book can be used with readers of various age groups, but in particular secondary and tertiary students, to use and develop new literacies. Defines new literacies. Explores the ways in which the characteristics of postmodern picture books incorporate these literacies. Uses the postmodern picture book "Black…

Presents an alternative perspective regarding the future of information and library education. Characterizes contemporary society as postmodern, says library education has become preoccupied with information management and its associated technologies, and suggests that the curriculum needs to be based on principles of critical distance, social…

Describes the ways collaborative learning methods can enhance the undergraduate course in sociological theory. Presents an explanation of collaborative learning, distinguishes it from active learning, identifies its challenges, and describes some specific ways that instructors can use it to teach classical sociological theory. (CMK)

Clarifies the problem of perception in history. Offers an invented conversation based on personal experience and other sources as a means to presenting an interpretation of modern war and demonstrating how different generations interpret events. Considers the "war" between empiricists and postmodernists and its effect on history teachers. (CMK)

The 1st article (C. Campbell & M. Ungar, 2004) of this 2-part exploration of postmodern approaches to family therapy and narrative approaches to career counseling explored the differences between traditional trait and factor counseling models and postmodern approaches using life narratives and social constructionism. In this 2nd article, the…

Beginning with an understanding of visual culture as a postmodern discourse, this article argues for more focused attention to how visual culture presents a critical rethinking of subjectivity within art education. Through an analysis of a language of bombardment, a discourse that positions the subject as bombarded by media messages, this article…

This article attempts to do two things: first, to present some postmodern reflections on the current state of research into the relationship between information technology and learning, and second, to relate those reflections to the concept of representation, in ways that, it is hoped, offer some useful and positive models for extending our…