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: If the modernist assumption is the emphasis on the didactic teaching of content, in postmodern classroom providing learning activities for children to acquire the content is emphasized. Postmodern educators focus on individual differences in learning rather than “uniformity of thought, knowledge, practice, and curriculum” (Wright, Module Three-Lesson One: Labor, Capital and Science). They identify and respond to students with different learning styles. Recognizing the difference in how each student learns has brought special education. 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.