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.

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Guest Professor at WePie English Education Assoc. “Postmodernism is formed by but is a reaction against the modern world view” (Rudd, 2006). In education, I understand postmodern perspective as an approach to educational change or extension from modern one across the broad spectrum. Postmodern approach can be defined by the word: particularity. According to Jary & Jary (1995, p. 509), ‘post-modernity’ is seen as involving such features as a world of “flux, flow and fragmentation’, without absolute values, an end of the dominance of an overarching belief in ‘scientific’ rationality and a unitary theory of progress, the replacement of empiricists theories of representation and truth, and an increased emphasis on the importance of the unconscious, on free-floating signs and images, and a plurality of viewpoints.” (