Emancipatory processes such as perspective transformation and conscientization do not mesh with the aims of job training programs. Training language is often used to control trainees' social perspective. The fundamental question is: In whose interest are training programs for the unemployed run? (SK)

Discussion of postmodernism in architecture, visual arts, and literary arts focuses on a postmodern aesthetic in children's picture books. Examples of postmodernism in four recently published picture books are explained and discussed, and implications for new ways of thinking about picture books in the future are suggested. (six references) (LRW)

Indicates that the language of discourse needs to be evaluated more diligently by participants, greater attention must be paid to the tradition out of which an interpreter speaks, and hidden assumptions need to be unveiled more critically by participants in continuing professional discourse. (JOW)

Argues that contemporary critical theory must be understood as an attempt to articulate and respond to the problem of postmodernism, to establish a place for contemporary critical practice. Asserts that critical theory enables local praxis, and compels contest, debate, and dialogue in contemporary rhetoric. (RDS)

Indicates how a postmodernist rhetorical critique in "voguing""speaks through movement" and enables to think of gender and sexuality kinesthetically, not as fixed categorically. Suggests that voguing is an imitating in dance of rhetoric's refracting surfaces that both reveal and conceal what is missing. (RS)

Compares the postmodernists' and transformationists' versions of interpretivism, in relation to epistemology, politics, and the ontology of the self. Sides with the transformationists and concludes that the differences between the two are overdrawn. (MMU)

Despite de Beauvoir's language of bifurcations in her writings, she actually initiates a process of deconstructing Cartesian distinctions between the individual and society, past and present, present and future, means and ends, and ethics and freedom. The paper reconceptualizes her book, "The Ethics of Ambiguity," proposing a movement…

Scrutinizes the use of biographical narrative as a device for constructing leadership models for schools. The historic figure of Che Guevara (as reconstructed in Peter McLaren's article) is not appropriate as a model for contemporary school leadership, due to outdated ideologies. More wide-ranging aesthetic criticism should undergird school…

Identifies four postmodern themes: complicated identities, the demise of the individual as expert, constraints on individual actions, and postmodern organizations as dream and nightmare. Outlines management-class exercises that illustrate ambiguities and paradoxes in the themes. (SK)

The concerns postmodernists have about evaluations, especially in education, are explored. Postmodernist and standards-based perspectives on evaluation are described, and specific questions about the role of postmodernism in evaluation are addressed from a standards-based perspective. (SLD)

This introduction to a special issue on postmodernism and behavior disorders discusses problems with the definition of postmodernism, including the trend for people to label whatever they wish as postmodern, the inability to separate postmodern from the modern, and the subjectivity of defining which ideas are about "reality" or "truth." (CR)

Discusses the storied approach as a constructivist perspective on career counseling. The storied approach explores the client's world through story development as the client and counselor collaboratively co-construct, deconstruct, and construct life stories. Assessment consists of both quantitative and qualitative data that are woven into the…

Identifies elements of science education that are conducive to environmental awareness and congruent with reconstructive or revisionary postmodernism. Discusses the nature of and criticisms of modernism and the role of modern science in the environmental crisis. Identifies developments in postmodern science that supersede modern science.…

Discusses the history of the dichotomy drawn between fact and value, tracing its development from modernity to postmodernity. Advocates a relational approach that permits diversity in the context of unity, in which the conditions "is" and "ought" are complimentary. (JPB)

Calls for a rethinking of self-assessment in higher education. A poststructuralist critique of the dominant humanistic approach to teaching in higher education exposes self-assessment as a normative and disciplining educational practice. Calls for an alternative to humanistic models of self-assessment as a "self-forming" without invoking…