Examines transitions from critical to postcritical and postmodern to premodern that underlie Philip Wexler's writing on social and educational theory, discussing critical social psychology and examining social and spiritual transformation in the postmodern world. For Wexler's envisioned transformation to occur, it must be accompanied by ongoing…

This paper explores the impact of John Dewey on the field of educational psychology. Dewey raised issues and ideas, such as the role of context and the reapproximation of knowledge, that would come to haunt education and psychology for the next century. And yet soon after the turn of the twentieth century, Dewey abandoned psychology and redefined…

Addresses the assumption that ritual performances are not as important in modern, secular, bureaucratic schools as they were in communal, sacred, tribal societies, reviving a concept forged in structuralism and redefining it as a performative text, thus taking advantage of certain poststructural insights while maintaining much of the power of its…