Discusses the World Wide Web (W3) and its relevance to a philosophy of science. Topics include PORIDGE, an electronically mediated encyclopedia of postmodern knowledge; hypertext mark-up language; W3 as a medium for information ecologies; the relationship between W3 and the user; social manufacture of knowledge; and W3 as a model. (29 references)…

Provides an overview of this special issue that addresses the ethical position of educational technology in a society. Topics discussed include critical theory; an invisible college, i.e., a scholarly communication network; the humanistic approach to developing an ethical conscience; feminist theory; and postmodern and poststructural theory.…

Provides a brief glossary of key terminology used in this special issue that addresses the ethical position of educational technology in society, including author-text-reader; connotation; critical theoretic orientation; criticism; deconstruction; discourse; ends-means orientation; metaphor; and postmodern. (Contains seven references.) (LRW)

Discusses modern educational technology, including postmodernism; deconstruction; the Shannon-Weaver Model for telecommunication apparatus and the epistemology of educational technology; the systems approach; and possible demands of postmodern educational technology, including technoscience, instructional design issues, and cultural aspects.…

Attempts to advance the content analysis debate by combining and responding to the major arguments from both modernists and postmodernists, foundationalists and antifoundationalists. Begins with a general justification of the artifact as the site of cultural study and moves on to a specific defense of content analysis as a preferred method for…

It is argued that a clear vision of the role of qualitative methods in educational research is needed. A series of six guidelines to chart that vision is presented, and the notion of research genres within a postmodern framework is used to reconcile the differences between qualitative and quantitative research. (SLD)

Explores the ideal of community and its implications for higher education. Urges would-be reformers to beware prescriptions offering simplistic, universal answers to campus malaise. The learning community idea is attractive, but nostalgia is counterproductive. Demands for open access, real participation, and substantive programmatic change cannot…

Calls for an understanding of how time interconnects with the classroom by reviewing the interdependence of the space-time continuum, by addressing the role of personal history in influencing teacher-student relationships, and by advocating curricula that connect to the realities of student lives. (SK)

Post-Fordism suggests that trade work practices are outmoded and industrial restructuring will improve economic outcomes. This view overlooks an important characteristic of industrial trades--the integrity of the work culture--and is oblivious to the merits of the tradespersons' cultural identity. (SK)

The modern school reflected modern society and the nuclear family; today's school mirrors the kinship structure and values of postmodern society and the permeable family. Assumptions of sociological differences, particularity, and irregularity are supplanting modernist beliefs in social progress, universality, and regularity. Children's competence…

A type of feminist scholarship, standpoint epistemology, provides a methodology that can enrich information management and research. Standpoint epistemology is a compromise between the objectivity of positivism and the extreme relativity of postmodernism. A variety of techniques in feminist research diversify the information professional's…

Presents several classroom experiences encountering Donald Barthelme's "The Indian Uprising" to suggest how this and other postmodern texts might be approached in college classrooms. (SR)

Critiques various forms of modernism, traditional Marxism, and liberalism from a postmodern perspective. Identifies the politics of the intellectual projects undertaken by Frederic Jameson and Patricia Bizzell as modernist and reactionary. Argues that their academic appeal lies in their conservatism. (HB)

Offers 11 brief voices, views, positions, moments, and comments on the English teaching profession through the lens of pedagogy and in relation to the emerging postmodern view of literature and criticism. (HB)

Provides analysis of the term "plagiarism" and distinguishes it from other ways students might employ sources. Defines a form of source usage called "patchwriting" that relies heavily on summary and which should be acceptable to writing teachers. Weighs the pros and cons of summary writing. (HB)