Asserts that sharing postmodern works with students makes them aware that fiction continues to evolve and authors continue to experiment. Discusses several postmodern novels and suggests using passages as well as entire works with students. (PRA)

Presents three related metaphors for understanding the relations among rhetoric, social forms, and social processes (and thus among text, context, and culture): contemporary America as empire, empire's concern with feeding, and empire's feeding habits as pornography. (SR)

Provides an overview of how current theories of postmodernism might inform and influence the practice of English teachers in the classroom. Provides an annotated bibliography of five central theoretical works. (HB)

Argues against the encroachment of information technologies, particularly information machines, upon higher education. Describes the experience at an IBM Corporation presentation on the use of computers in the college classroom. Defines the term "talking head" and shows how this term relates to education. (HB)

This study of the rise of charter schools focuses on understanding how modern identities and postmodern ideologies converge and whom charter school reform benefits. It identifies the potential for greater inequality when people in different social locations define localized social movements. (SK)

Argues that preserving privilege is the dominant aim of the postmodern university and that the faculty as "guild" demands silence and conformity. Cites instances of careerism, suppression of free speech, and corruption of tenure practices. (SK)

Focuses on the historical discourse (a complex interaction of social, cultural, ideological, and esthetic forces) that constructed theatre for young audiences in the United States. Examines the real and potential impact of post modern and positivist theories in reexamining these traditional narratives, shedding light on how and why the field…

Examines how a number of modern innovative authors use chronological progression, causal connection, and narrative voice in their novels. Analyzes texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jeanette Winterson, noting the areas of connection and disjunction between the theoretical claims and actual practice of experimental authors. (NH)

Examines the postmodern critique of the modern conception of human subjectivity and what it entails for our understanding of education, noting what this implies for educational practice. The paper refers to the work of Michel Foucault, discussing his ideas against the background of a distinction between education as manipulation and education as…

This response to "Behavior Disorders: A Postmodern Perspective" (David Elkind) rejects the postmodern notion that there can be no common narratives and proposes three possible metanarratives that could be useful in thinking about behavioral disorders: democracy, spirituality, and the notions of Nick Hobbs. (CR)

Reviews a two-horned dilemma faced when teaching values in the humanities classroom. Identifies the two horns as the demand for traditional value-centered education and the rapidly shifting cultural patterns of postmodern society. Explains an approach to value-centered education developed for use in an introductory humanities course. (DSK)

Discusses how Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) includes some basic postmodern ideas and can be practiced with important caveats and cautions that keep it open-ended, flexible, and relativist. Describes how REBT shows clients how their conscious and unconscious absolutistic philosophies lead to much of their dysfunctional feelings and…

Explains the utility of using a postmodern feminist theory perspective for designing and teaching human sexuality courses, and presents strategies for helping students understand a constructivist framework. Concludes with a discussion of pedagogical and ethical challenges of teaching from a postmodern feminist perspective. (Contains 73 references…

Examines such trends as vocationalization, marketization, and the commodification of knowledge within the discourse of lifelong learning. Explores the concept of boundaries in education and lifelong learning and the implications for the role of adult educators. (Contains 58 references.) (SK)

This article discusses postmodern and cultural relativist ideas in special education. It offers examples of how the adoption of these doctrines is dangerous and destructive to students with special needs and explores possible resolutions. (Contains references.) (Author)