Considers some aspects of contemporary picture books that can be especially engaging for readers young and old. Reports a study of readers of various ages who read and discussed David Macaulay's picture book "Black and White." Considers questions of concern that these readings raise for adults who are interested in children's reading.…

Argues that Marxism is as much an ethical position that resists the foreclosure of identity as it is a political position. Claims a Marxist standpoint could facilitate the political and ethical accountability that the current politicized composition pedagogies seek while also constructing the classroom as a site for active participation in the…

Provides a profile of the career of John Belland and his work in instructional technology. Highlights include his educational background, teaching experience in higher education, work in learning with 3D computer-generated animation, alternative paradigms of instructional design, and ideas of postmodernism. (LRW)

Considers some poststructuralist possibilities in researching everyday happenings at a primary school. Presents research methodologies from feminist theories that insist on a lack of traditional authority and seek the dislocation of mastery. Illustrates ethnography, data gathering, deconstructions, and research descriptions, as well as presenting…

Asks a spate of questions about the nature of research and boundaries of identification. Points to numerous ambiguities inherent in the research prescriptions of critical postmodernism writers. Suggests the miasma that the many implications of postmodernist injunctions about identity and representation can become. (DSK)

Uses the experiences of health care staff in a dementia facility to build a model of workplace learning, based on postmodern scholarship, with these elements: community of practice; dynamic engagement with diversity, power, and discourses; and a context integrated with the wider environment. (SK)

Discusses linear, or systematic, instructional design and development, including a 15-step model. Topics include needs assessment; formative evaluation; performance objectives; instructional materials development; pilot testing; design alternatives that challenge linear instructional design, including constructivism, anchored instruction, and…

Argues that writing research has not explored the ethical implications of using self-evaluations in classroom and large-scale writing assessment. Explores portfolio cover letters, reflective essays, self-grading, and self-placement as depicted in college composition literature using this postmodern ethical framework. Demonstrates a process of…

Probes, through interviews with members of the setting panel, the process of setting the first external test for the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) physics course when it was implemented in 1992. Some implications are noted for future efforts to reform curriculum and assessment in physics, and for current classroom practice. (Author/MM)

Brings together two promising strands of research in organizational communication--postmodern theories and contradiction-centered analyses of organizational discourse and practice--by employing irony, as articulated by postmodern and/or feminist scholars, as a theoretical lens to analyze the contradictions that structure a social service…

Examines three recent books in the field of philosophy of education, investigating what they tell about the field and noting what their omissions reveal, questions that are being asked, and answers that are being proffered. The paper seeks to uncover tendencies and orientations in need of deconstruction. It concludes that this literature retreats…

Discusses connections between the ambiguous status of Mexican immigrants, Mestizas, and others inhabiting border areas described in Marleen Pugach's "On the Border of Opportunity" (1998) and in Gloria Anzaldua's "Borderlands: La Frontera, the New Mestiza" (1987) and postmodernist identity-formation opportunities in Zohar and…

Globalization and post-modernity are linked to changes in the nature of late capitalism and crises in the modern state. Neither offers much in practice to the much needed renewal of democracy, including in education. Indeed, both arguably contribute to a trend towards individualism, and a retreat from democratic engagement and visions of the…

The power/knowledge crisis for universities today is that they are no longer the primary producers, determiners, transmitters, and authorizers of valued knowledge. This paper reviews five texts that examine this crisis, discussing postmodernist tensions at work, the pedagogical relations of academics to their students, criticism in the postmodern…

International students have often been spoken about in academic literature as a group with group problems and "identities". In this article, I use postmodern and poststructuralist ways of analysing to look at the ways international students (re)construct storylines about themselves. Some discourses construct closed and limited subject…