Modernist responses to the postmodern challenge form three broad areas: orthodox, critical pedagogy, and performativity texts¶

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Description¶

On the right side of the debate field, the paper patterns modernist responses into three genres. The author writes that he patterns texts "that respond in one way or another to the postmodern challenge into three broad areas": orthodox texts defending a core modernist metanarrative such as Reason or Progress; critical pedagogy texts preserving emancipation while appropriating postmodernist or feminist ideas; and performativity texts elaborating reflexive systems narratives of late modernity. Illustrative advocates include Epstein, Watson, McLaren, Torres, and Cowen.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Classification rests on exegetic reading of how each text positions itself toward modernist metanarratives

Constraints¶

• The taxonomy covers illustrative texts in comparative education discourse, not an exhaustive census

Target Learners¶

• comparative education scholars

Target Learning Objectives¶

• distinguishing modernist counterarguments to postmodernism

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Related Theories¶

• Heterotopic social cartography maps perspectival difference as an intertextual field
• Four modernist genres opposing the postmodern challenge in comparative education
• Five postmodern-favorable knowledge communities in comparative education discourse

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Key Sources¶

• Paulston, Rolland G. (1998). Mapping the Postmodernity Debate in Comparative Education Discourse. Occasional Paper Series, University of Pittsburgh. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED430869