Title: Explanation of creativity in postmodern educational ideas - ScienceDirect
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Explanation of creativity in postmodern educational ideas
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Content: 2. Education in postmodernism Searching about postmodernism without knowing modernism is impossible, because postmodernism has refuse most of modernism's main ideas. The most important point in modernism educational opinion is rationality. In moder education, teachers try to educate a logical person who can live in rational society. In this situation, teachers dominat and control students. Also teachers know everything and determine studentsâ€™ positions and futures (Usher & Edward 1994). But postmodernism which tries to solve modernismâ€™s problem, has different ideas. Postmodern philosophe reject objectivity, absolute fact, traditional Epistemology, metaphysics and universal moral values. In contrast, the emphasize on subjectivity, local facts, interdisciplinary methods, individual and cultural differences and creativit (Beheshti, 2005). Variation and evolution are basic concepts in postmodern education which are close to creativity.