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This short lecture about postmodern condition in educational research was held for OSLO RSUC international master students in Norway, 13th of June 2013.
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The Postmodern Conditionin Educational Research
Evelin Tamm13th June 2013
RSUC Master ProgrammeVidaråsen, Norway
The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge
Jean-Francois Lyotard, 1979
“… the miniaturisation and commercialisation of machines is already changing the way in which learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited. “
“The nature of knowledge cannot survive unchanged within this context of general transformation. It can fit into the new channels, and become operational, only if learning is translated into quantities of information.”
The Postmodern Condition
“Along with the hegemony of computers comes a certain logic, and therefore a certain set of prescriptions determining which statements are accepted as “knowledge” statements.”
“The true goal of the system, the reason it programs itself like a computer, is the optimisation of the global relationship between input and output, in other words, performativity.”
The Postmodern Condition
grand narratives are dead“No one, not even the least privileged among us, is ever entirely
powerless over the messages that traverse and position him at the post of sender, addressee, or referent.”
RESEARCH AS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTIONGLOBAL POWER STRUGGLESTATUS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGETO SPEAK IS TO FIGHTLANGUAGE GAMES (Wittgenstein)PERFORMATIVITYSOCIETY AS SELFREGULATING SYSTEM (Parson)
I have really worked it throughWhen I cameI sat with the booksreadI wasI had to from A to BI was a housewifeI went to work secretlyI checked that I need so much moneyI knew nothingI know nothing about banking
Key themes in postmodernism
Centrality of discourse, textuality
Fragmented identities
Critique of the idea of representation
Grand narratives lost their power
Knowledge is power, but looses its innocence and neutrality
Mats Alvesson 2002
Research in the postmodern. 3D
does not start in a naive ”realist” position
does not seek essences or truths
data are not taken as facts, but as descriptive terms, both contectualised and relatives
Educational research in the postmodern A.Bleakley 2004 http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/resined/postmodernism/pmhome.htm
methodological principlesresearch work and texts capture a plurality ‘of different
identities or voices associated with different groups, individuals, positions or special interests’
single participants may convey multiple representationsphenomena can be presented using a variety of modes and
media, including ‘the use of different sorts of descriptive languages’
‘Command of different theoretical perspectives’ and ‘strong familiarity with the critique of … these’ on the part of researchers (reflexivity). This leads to the possibility of ‘openness and different sorts of readings to surface in the research’ (flexibility)
Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skoldberg (2000, pp.194-5) in Bleakley 2004 http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/resined/postmodernism/pmhome.htm
Critique to postmodern research in education 3Nos
No grand narrativesNo stabile definitionsNo fit-for-all answers
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What next?
the internet happening to learning
1971 Ivan Illich writes about learning webs in “Deschooling the Society”“provide access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to
share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.” (2012:75)
2013 Dave Cormier experimenting with rizomatic learning”The best teaching prepares people for dealing with uncertainty” ”I embrace uncertainty in my classroom””Stop measuring learning””Teacher does not need to know the content””Ecosystem for learning”#ED366 in Twitter
coursera.com MOOC (massive open online learning)
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