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"A well written and stimulating excursion into postmodern education. Parker's challenge to critical educational theory can, in the long run, only help the left rethink and deepen its political project." - Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles.
This is a book about two stories of education.
In one story there is a vocabulary of means, efficiency, bureaucracy, inspection and science; in the other, one of autonomy, democracy, emancipation and action research. One is the story of positivist managerialist approaches to education, the other is the story of reflective teaching.
This book displaces both of these stories. By applying the techniques of deconstruction, Stuart Parker overturns the assumptions common to both of these positions and, in doing so, jettisons some widely cherished beliefs about education, autonomy and rationality.
Moving beyond current debates, this book articulates a new manifesto for education in postmodernity and highlights the implications for educational practices and institutions.
Table des matières
The opening
Technical rationality
Realism
The idea of reflective teaching
Philosophical foundations
Deconstruction
manoeuvres of postmodernity
Deconstructing reason
the shift to postmodernity
Doubt and autonomy
the play of deconstruction at the heart of reflection
Reflective practice in the postmodern world
Bibliography
Index.
A propos de l'auteur
Stuart Parker is Principal Lecturer in the School of Politics, Education and Social Science, South Bank University, London.
