Re-Schooling Society

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ISBN: 9780750706230 | 0750706236
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/1997

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This text describes and explains the sense of uncertainty faced by educators as the millennium approaches. It highlights the many transitions taking place in all aspects of public life and education during the postmodern phase of late capitalism.

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Acknowledgments
Re-schooling Society: An Introduction	p. 1
The Path to the Postmodern	p. 7
The Medieval World-view	p. 7
The Modern World-view	p. 10
Post(?)Modernity	p. 18
Post-Fordism: The Emerging Economic Expression of Capitalism	p. 19
Postmodernism: The Cultural Expression of Postmodernity	p. 22
Postmodernism and Postmodernists	p. 25
Sociological Theories of the Postmodern	p. 30
Neo-Durkheimian Theory and Postmodernism	p. 30
Critical Theory and Postmodernism	p. 33
Marxist Theory and Postmodernism	p. 37
From the Medieval to the Post(?)Modern: A Summary	p. 39
Curriculum	p. 43
Curriculum and Modernity	p. 45
Curriculum and Postmodernity	p. 49
The Ludic-rous Curriculum	p. 49
Curriculum, Culture Wars and National Identity	p. 56
Towards Subjects of the Self	p. 61
Performativity and the Curriculum	p. 70
Summary	p. 72
Pedagogy	p. 74
Pedagogy and Modernity	p. 74
The Pedagogy of Pleasure	p. 77
Postmodernists, Psychology and Pedagogy	p. 79
Postmodernists, Politics and Pedagogy	p. 86
Technology, Performativity and Pedagogy	p. 91
Vocation and Voice	p. 101
Towards the Curricular, Pedagogical and Technical Fix	p. 105
Assessment	p. 108
Assessment and Modernity	p. 109
Validity and Representation	p. 112
Foucault and Self-assessment	p. 113
Performativity, Post-Fordism and the Assessment of Competence	p. 118
Playing for High Stakes	p. 121
Management	p. 124
Modernity and Management	p. 125
Organization Theory, Postmodernists and Postmodernism	p. 125
Organization Theory and Postmodernist Theory	p. 127
TQM and the Rise of the Qualitariat	p. 132
Making the Right Choice?	p. 137
The Way Forward Back to Basics?	p. 141
Education Transformed?	p. 147
References	p. 156
Index	p. 171
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