Identifies and evaluates the major subject positions open for educators/teachers, differentiating between competing positions on and assessments of the postmodern condition of knowledge. The essay shows how such assessments prompt different conceptions of education and what it means to be a teacher. (SM)

Highlights Canadian writer George Bowering's view of reading as metaphor and process (shaping both his fiction and his developing sense of interpretation as a political act) by focusing on two of his books, "Burning Water" and "Caprice." (SR)

Sketches contours of the postmodern movement and implications for a research agenda in mass media and international communication. Analyzes the furor over Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" to illustrate the difficulties that result from Western interpretations of events whose origins are distant culturally. Offers a number of…

Views postmodernism and cultural studies as distinct discourses with similar goals related to the deconstruction of ideologies that contribute to the West's domination over indigenous and formerly colonized peoples. Discusses cultural politics and the legitimation of alternative (non-Western) world views as possible channels for both local power…

Proposes that English teachers recycle philology as a field of study. Redefines the shape of philology in view of postmodern theories of signification. Considers concepts of hermeneutics in retheorizing the aims of philology. Shows how such philological investigation might be used in the classroom to study literary texts. (HB)

Describes a modestly postmodern experiment (in an Advanced Composition course) with feminine linguistic spaces (Woolf, Welty, and Mairs) crisscrossing academic borders and existing simultaneously within and without traditional institutional modes. Uses Luce Irigaray's essay "Is the Subject of Science Sexed?" to comment on this undertaking. (SR)

Examines the deliberations prior to the Challenger disaster from the perspective of three major approaches in recent scholarship in rhetoric as applied to technical communications: positivism, postmodernistic social constructionism, and classical Aristotelianism. Champions an approach based on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." (HB)

Contemporary Europe manifests both an older modern form of racism (inferiority of certain ethnicities) and a postmodern form (impossibility of equitable dialog among races). Antiracist education using a relativist approach actually promotes postmodern racism. A dialogic approach emphasizing equal rights is preferable. (SK)

Explores the postmodernization of society, increased social pluralism, altered biographical patterns, and the emergence of new learning environments. Concludes that the Learning Society is a political concept and there is a paradigm shift away from education and training toward learning. (SK)

Human-rights education can be realized in the science classroom. Taught from a critical postmodern perspective, science can serve the interest of social justice while embracing a teaching dialectic fostering critical social consciousness. First, science educators must examine scientific theory's role in promoting both human welfare and injustice.…

Criticizes Maxcy's failure to understand Ernesto "Che" Guevara's reconstruction as an exemplary postmodern educational leader. The author presented a leadership model providing dialectical critique and an attentiveness to political economy. Postmodernism overlooks the significance of Guevara's efforts to resist global capitalist…

Uses postmodern and poststructuralist theory to critique ideologies of emancipation and the push for university/business partnerships. Argues for a shift from transmission of a body of knowledge to an interrogation of how knowledge is transmitted. (SK)

This response to "Behavior Disorders: A Postmodern Perspective" (Elkind) suggests that the claim that a paradigmatic shift has occurred in the field of emotional/behavioral disorders is unwarranted, since multiple model influence this area rather than a single monolithic view. It argues postmodernism lacks the intellectual coherence to…

Studies the legal and popular controversy surrounding the Negativland recording, "The Letter 'U' and the Numeral '2'." Finds analysis points to the organic development of alternative logics in the changing landscape of popular music. Considers the relationship between the "pastiche" style of the Negativland recording as a…

Situates lifelong learning within the framework of postmodernism, particularly the notions of performativity, decentering, and lack of mastery. Describes lifelong learning in postmodernist terms as a condition of constant apprenticeship in which proficiency is never final or complete. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)