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: “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.” ( as cited in Wright, Module Three-Lesson Two: The Modern and Post-Modern). Postmodern students are identified with differences within age groups while modern students were defined in terms of difference between age groups. One example is “developmentally appropriate practice, which gears schools to the development rather than the chronological age of children” urged by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. ( deMarrais & LeCompte, 1999, p.89).