Reactions from Comparative Education to Post-Modernism: From Initial Ortodoxy to Creative Heterodoxy in a Globalized World
Keywords:
Comparative Education, Postmodernism, learnology, transitology.Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyse the influence that the paradigm of Postmodernism exerts, as a reaction to Modernism, and what the consequences of all these are in a globalized world: the adoption of a reflective disposability in crescendo and an increased consciousness and openness to diverse perspectives, which lead to adopt a certain component of relativism, criticism and irony in education. With all this, the spectrum of "uncertainty" is growing, due to the continuous changes which are developing around it. As a consequence, two theoretical proposals emerge from Comparative Education, learnologies and transitologies, which contribute to a new vision of the discipline. While the first one interprets the incessant changes, which require new educational codes in order to understand the transformations of the world, the second one refers to the closest reality of the subject and the access to knowledge. To sum up, Comparative Education has found a new direction from both proposals, and it will probably lead to diverse Comparative Educations or a phase of Neo-comparative Education.
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Coulby, D. (1995). Ethnocentricity, post modernity and European curricular systems. European Journal of Teacher Education, 18 (2-3), 143-153.
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Cowen, R. (1998). Last past the post: Comparative Education, modernity and perhaps post-modernity. Comparative Education, 32 (2), 151-170.
Cowen, R. (2000a). Comparing futures or comparing pasts?. Comparative Education, 36 (3), 333-342.
Cowen, R. (2000b). Introducción. Propuesta Educativa [Dossier: Nuevas tendencias en educación comparada], 10 (23), 1-10.
Cox, E. (1995). A truly civil society. Sydney: ABC Books.
Crossley, M. & Jarvis, P. (2000). Introduction: continuity, challenge and change in Comparative and International Education. Comparative Education, 36 (3), 261-265
Delors, J. (1996). La educación encierra un tesoro. Informe a la UNESCO de la Comisión Internacional sobre la Educación para el Siglo XXI. Madrid: Santillana-Ediciones UNESCO.
Edwards T. & Whitty, G. (1992). Parental choice and educational reform in Britain and the United States. British Journal of Educational Studies, 40 (2),101-117.
Gordon, L. (1992). The New Zealand and educational Reforms: Competing interests. Comparative Education, 28, 281-291.
Hebdige, D. (1999). Hiding in the Light. New York: Routledge.
Hüfner, K., Meyer, J. W. & Naumann, J. (1992). Investigación sobre política educativa comparada: perspectiva de la sociedad mundial. Revista de Educación 297, 347-402.
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Louisy, P. (2001). Globalisation and Comparative Education: A Caribbean perspective. Comparative Education, 37 (4), 425-438.
Masemann, V. L. (1990). La etnografía crítica en el estudio de la educación comparada. In P. Albatch & G. Kelly (Comps.), Nuevos enfoques en educación Comparada (pp. 19-37). Madrid: Mondadori.
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http://www.emc.ufsc.br/~nepet/Artigos/Resumo/Morin_01.htm
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Paulston, R. G. (1997). Mapping visual culture in Comparative Education discourse. Compare, 27 (2), 117-152.
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Popkewitz, T. (1997). Changing terrains of knowledge and power. A social epistemology of educational research. Educational Researcher, 26 (9), 18-30.
Popkewitz, T. (2000). National imaginaries, the indigenous foreigner, and power: Comparative Educational Research. In J. Schriewer (Ed.), Discourse formation in Comparative Education (pp. 261-294). Francfort: Peter Lang.
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Watson, K. (2001). Introduction. Rethinking the role of comparative education. In K. Watson (Ed.), Doing comparative education research (pp. 9-22). Issues and problems. Oxford: Symposium Books.
Welch, A. (2000). New times, hard times: Re-reading Comparative Education in an age of discontent. In J. Schriewer (Ed.), Discourse formation in Comparative Education (pp. 189-226). Francfort: Peter Lang.
Welch, A. (2001). Globalisation, post-modernity and the State: Comparative Education facing the third millennium. Comparative Education, 37 (4), 475-492.
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