Current research in primary school drama education provides a complex and challenging stage for playing out current theoretical debates in both education and within the specific field of drama. This paper discusses some of these controversies, in particular, the view that education has a modernist agenda, and the conflict this causes in what many…

Examines crucial differences between E. Levinas and M. M. Bakhtin in an attempt to construct an ethics for the postmodern subject and to offer an angle of intervention into the current debates, especially the "social constructivism versus essentialism" controversy. (TB)

Develops the thesis that curriculum studies work in Canada might be characterized in terms of some persistent and theoretical commitments prompted both by national history and by commentaries on national identity. Draws on ecological and postmodern discourses. (SLD)

Theoretical integration refers to the conceptual unification of diverse counseling approaches. Contends that the general failure of integrative attempts is a by-product of the modernistic epistemic context in which the systems were considered and proposes an examination of common narrative features of counseling approaches in a postmodern…

Discusses postmodernism as a complicated concept. The postmodern challenge to social science, particularly to program evaluation, and its contribution to evaluation are the subjects of vignettes from practice and a limited exploration, one that borrows from a playfully absurdist postmodern style. (Author/SLD)

Responding to Usher's analysis of postmodernism and adult education, Standish argues that Usher misinterprets Derrida in a way that reinforces the relativism, skepticism, and rhetoric of oppression that Derrida seeks to undo. (SK)

Examines contributions of postmodern social/cultural theories to adult education, concluding that adult educators should be aware of the connection between knowledge and power; individuals occupy multiple positions through which they construct a worldview; and adult educators should be aware of how power is deployed. (SK)

Remarks on moments in Louise Wetherbee Phelps' book "Composition as a Human Science" where the absence of power presents a problematic for composition. Presents Jurgen Habermas for and against Phelps, noting the gestures of both authors against scientism while drawing on several of Habermas' basic concepts. Proposes rereading Aristotle's…

Suggests that moves to dispersed authorship signal not a challenge to the old ideology of authorship, but rather its appropriation for commercial ends. Identifies alternatives to this appropriation and explains why embracing these alternatives is important. Concludes that scholars of rhetoric and composition need to identify, theorize, practice,…

Considers how a fundamental shift has taken place in the rhetoric of composition studies. Examines the way a given idea, such as postmodernism or theory, becomes an effective force in history. Defines critical interference as the goal to slow (rather than to simply oppose) the process by which postmodernism passes into the common sense of…

Contrasts modern and post-modern views of technology and suggests a newer, transformative view of educational technology in an effort to explain why technology has failed and to provide a vision for how it could work. Discusses technology as teaching medium; technology as power; technoglobalism; and mediating the social con-construction of…

Presents a postmodern view of educational technology, specifically PowerPoint, highlighting new frames: multiple voicing, breakup of the canon, supplementarity, nonlinearity, slippery signifieds, and ironic juxtaposition. (PEN)

Compares retributive and restorative concepts of justice in corrections. Considers the influence of postmodern debates on the nature of knowledge, reality, justice, and education as they relate to federally sentenced women in Canada. Contains 14 references. (JOW)

Comparing teachers to Don Quixote, the author describes how the profession is caught between modernism and postmodernism. She offers action research and collegiality as ways to break the bounds of the entrenched, hierarchical system of education and its associated cultural values. (SK)

Attempts to provide an introduction to postmodernism for health care workers that spans postmodernist and modernist discourses. Discusses metanarratives, authority, discourse, deconstruction, textuality, and difference. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)