Title: Learning Theories/Post-Modern Theories - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Headings: Learning Theories/Post-Modern Theories
Learning Theories/Post-Modern Theories
Contents
Overview
Defining causality (What causes shifts)
Cultural shifts (How it occurs)
The current debate (The basic definitions of PoMo)
Case studies & workplace examples

Content: The division of the term "postmodernism" breaks down into two major parts, post and modernism. Post is built philosophically on thoughts from multiple arenas, and varied sources, who use deconstructionism as a modus-operandi. The idea of postmodernism is not to know what you are not, but to not really know what you are. What postmodernism is not is modernism. It is an after effect of the modernistic era that capitalized on individuality, built on absolutes, and the scientific method as its structure. Postmodernism in its current form is still developing and is not completed. Leonard Sweet and other futurists say this wave will be complete somewhere in the range of 2020, shifting the society from modernism into what it will become. All that may be understood at this stage is what the society on the fringes is saying we are not, which is modernism. Deconstruction is a powerful postmodern tool for questioning prevailing representations of learners and learning. According to Kilgore (2001), the purpose of deconstruction is to identify and discredit the false binaries that structure a communication or “discourse”;