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Peer reviewedBiesta, Gert – Interchange, 1995
Postmodernism is an articulation of a tension between contingency and commitment. Since this commitment is typically pedagogical, education has a strong reason to stay within postmodernism. The paper reviews the feminist debate on postmodernism, examining how postmodernism contributes to the emancipatory interests of education. The public-private…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Feminism, Ideology, Politics of Education
