
Does Postmodernism Compare?
An Analysis of the Use of Postmodern Constructs in Comparative Education Studies
Katherine Carroll(Author)
AV Akademikerverlag
Published on 26. June 2012
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Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-3-639-43203-9 (ISBN)
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Revision with unchanged content. Early scholars in comparative education sought to achieve verstehen, an internalized understanding, of the nature of education in a culture. They accessed German concepts, particularly Wilhelm Dilthey's, to interpret national studies to include the Triebkräfte, or forces, that made each nation's education system unique. Dilthey's inclusion of Johann von Herder's and Friedrich Schleiermacher's anti-rationalist ideas of intuitus and incommensurability was brought forward by Martin Heidegger, whose phenomenology incorporated these Idealist foundations. By the 1990s, some comparativists advocated for epistemologies and methodologies drawn from Heidegger and Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and other postmodernists whose positioning was derived from Heidegger's thought. This book analyzes these theorists' foundational assumptions, exploring their use in epistemological and methodological approaches in recent studies in three major journals: Compare, Comparative Education, and Comparative Education Review. This examination of the conceptual influence Idealist and postmodern premises have had will benefit professionals in all areas of the fields of education and philosophy.
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English
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Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-639-43203-9 (9783639432039)
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holds a Ph.D. in comparative education fromLoyola University Chicago and she is an instructorat Loyola University Chicago, part-time.She published in Education Review (2003) and inComparative Education Review (2005) with ErwinEpstein. They are currently co-authoring a booklengthstudy on indoctrination in education.