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13 SES 16, After Postmodernism In Educational Theory?
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This symposium is related to Educational Philosophy and Theory journal’s theme number After postmodernism in educational theory? Special issue for 50th Celebration of the journal. In this symposium and following the journal invitation, we ask what comes after postmodernism and how this will affect educational theory. The journal issued an invitation and received 170 responses, each of 500 words which will be published at the end of 2018. In the invitation, the editors (Michael A. Peters, Marek Tesar and Liz Jackson) wrote:
"In this experiment, we invited readers and contributors of EPAT to respond to the question of what comes after postmodernism and how this will affect educational theory. Below there are a number of statements by various authors that provide an orientation to the topic and help to frame the excerise. This is an exercise in collective writing. We invite contributors to submit a contribution of 500 words (and no more than 5 references) to us as joint editors by November 30, 2017... "
We included following quote from MIchael Peters (2008):
"‘The Ends of Postmodernism?’ The question mark acts to recoil upon a set of discourses and cultural phenomenon that, at least in the popular imaginary, proclaims in apocalyptic tones “the end”: the end of modernism, the end of metaphysics, the end of humanism, the end of Man, the death of God, the end of value. It resonates with its modernist Hegelian sibling discourses, both rightist and leftist, that still carry some theoretical weight: the end of ideology; the end of history, the end of the welfare state, the end of communism or capitalism. And, at the same time, it shares the same kind of popular expectation of something that follows “the end”: whether it be “the new”, “the beginning”, or “a return”, historically speaking. In one sense these eschatological narratives of endings (and beginnings), …. are endemic to Western culture and help define both its cultural specificity and its sources of renewal. "Postmodernism", like a host of other similar terms christened with the same prefix, such as “Post-Impressionism” and “Post-Expressionism”, employs a reactive rhetorical device or strategy, betraying what I call a “naming anxiety”. Reading the signs of exhaustion – an end or completion – the users of this device, following many precedents, lacked the confidence to name “the new” and fell back upon the strategy of naming what it is not. This process of negative definition is, intellectually, both less risky and less ambitious. Charles Jencks (1996: 14–15) has recorded seventy such related uses, including “post-industrial”, “postminimalism”, “post-Marxism” and “post-liberal era”, and charted a genealogy of “postmodernism” in terms of its pre-history (1870–1950), its positive definition (1950–1980), and its final phase (after 1981) characterized by attacks upon it and its anthologisation"
References
- Michael A. Peters, (2008) “Apocalyptic Thinking Now: The Ends of Postmodernism” Review of Contemporary Philosophy, https://www.addletonacademicpublishers.com/contents-rcp/113-volume-7-2008/494-apocalyptic-thinking-now-the-ends-of-postmodernism - Charles Jencks, (1996) What is Post-Modernism (What Is???), academy Press
Programme by Network 2019
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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