Title: Postmodern Perspectives: What it means to teach and learn from a postmodern perspective.
Headings: Postmodern Perspectives: What it means to teach and learn from a postmodern perspective.
Postmodern Perspectives: What it means to teach and learn from a postmodern perspective.
Julien Sanghyo Park Follow
Guest Professor at WePie English Education Assoc.
Julien Sanghyo Park
Guest Professor at WePie English Education Assoc.

Content: The view on gifted and handicapped students, which was rather negative in terms of similarity and unity in modernism has greatly changed. In the postmodern era, those students are supported much more with better treatment than modern era, which I see as one great positive part of postmodern education in terms of humanism. ‘Choice’ is another word to describe the education in the postmodern era. Diversity has been brought in school governance and structure; magnet schools and charter schools are the examples. For teachers, the word ‘choice’ means that considerable autonomy is given to them. They have more freedom to select curricular materials and instructional strategies, which means less centralized but localized lessons in the classroom and they “are empowered to become more forceful decision makers in their own classrooms” (deMarrais & LeCompte, 1999, p.93). In sum, what postmodernists would argue is “that only local communities (schools, teachers, students) and their knowledges and practices based on diversity and differences of gender, race, ethnicity makes any sense at all (Wright, Lecture Note . Module Three—Lesson Two: The Modern and Post-Modern)
Elkind, D. (1998).