Postmodern Education and the Concept of Power
@article{Rmer2011PostmodernEA, title={Postmodern Education and the Concept of Power}, author={Thomas Aastrup R{\o}mer}, journal={Educational Philosophy and Theory}, year={2011}, volume={43}, pages={755 - 772} }
This article presents a discussion of how postmodernist, poststructuralist and critical educational thinking relate to different theories of power. I argue that both Critical Theory and some poststructuralist ideas base themselves on a concept of power borrowed from a modernist tradition. I argue as well that we are better off combining a postmodern idea of education with a postmodern idea of power. To this end the concept of power presented by the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe is…
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