Discusses the use of hypermedia in education and argues that the dominant hypermedia models of electronic literacy are too limited to do justice to new media and changing views of literacy in the electronic age, especially in terms of their recourse to postmodern theories of representation. (Contains 70 references.) (Author/LRW)

Considers how theories of writing grounded in cultural studies and ethnographic writing have explicitly taken up questions of writing students' relations to cultures and communities outside the academy. Considers disciplinary influences in ethnographic writing. Discusses the reenvisioning of the politics of postmodern ethnography. (SG)

Suggests that while postmodern criticism has enjoyed a certain amount of currency, the cost of this success has come in the form of detachment. Argues that a reconfiguration of the relations between nature and culture suggests that the posthuman provides us with a fresh perspective from which to examine rhetoric. Identifies some of the problems…

Focuses on three foundational assumptions in postmodern thought, have implications for curriculum. Discusses the nature of open systems, the structure of complexity, and transformatory change. Argues that curriculum specialists could benefit from study of contemporary developments in the fields of biology, chemistry, cognition, literary theory,…

Points out that the condensed, mediated arguments found in today's public debates resemble Aristotle's enthymeme. Illustrates the similarities between classical and postmodern arguments through an analysis of the rhetoric of David Duke, and discusses the implications for how scholars conceptualize argument in the public sphere. (SR)

Examines ethics in relation to postmodernism, arguing that ethics, subsumed in the ontology of situatedness, is problematic in education and could encourage reincarnation of the violence postmodernism seeks to overcome. Levinas's work is used to argue that ethics cannot be subsumed by ontology but rather precedes ontology, highlighting autonomy…

Reviews recent developments in the rhetoric of science, social constructionism, feminist critiques of science, and ethics. Explains how they are postmodernistic, and explains how they are also humanistic. Concludes by discussing the implications for the practice and teaching of technical communication. (SR)

Suggests that the oppositional or adversarial stance (a "them/us" stance) has run its course in higher education and that it is time to deploy some postmodern "both/and" thinking to find a way out of the constant negativity of dissent. Encourages negotiation of a collective institutional culture and climate in which individuals can meet and talk.…

Discusses central features of postmodern theory that rhetoricians have found relevant. Considers how these postmodern conceptions are counterparts to discussions in social-epistemic rhetoric. Demonstrates that the complexities of theory have pedagogical implications and that teachers must discover them. Argues that the merger of theory and…

Structures of multiple education and knowledge systems can be recreated in maps, in a social cartography where the space of the social map reflects effects of social changes in real space. Such maps allow social research to escape from modernism's positivist restraints, improve comparative educators' understanding of the social milieu, and open…

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)

Discusses the politics of social science research and locates the development of transformative research within debates about postmodernism. Provides an example of a transformative research project highlighting the relationship between power and knowledge. (SK)

Proposes that information science is a postmodern science, driven by the need to solve problems caused by classical sciences and technologies. Some basic structures of current approaches to information science, the role of knowledge, information as knowledge for action, and the theoretical structures needed to establish the bases of information…

Seeks rhetoric(s) that enact corporeally in language suggestions of "queer," a "queer rhetoric," in which desire/bodies put into play a kind of linguistic music. Searches for "queer," particularly its sexual and gendering connotations. Connects that with postmodern, poststructuralist rhetoric(s) as self-referential.…

Explores aspects of autobiographical accounts of childhood. Considers Freudian explanations of how recollections of childhood are bound by memory; then describes the distinctive form of definitions of oneself-as-child and relates them to post-modern theories about the self. Discusses ways in which recollections of childhood are framed by the…