Lyotard: Just EducationPradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on postmoderism and education. |
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... rule-governed, systematic, and indeed modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The postmodern condition does not ...
... rule-governed, systematic, and indeed modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The postmodern condition does not ...
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... rules in the game of reasoning (Lyotard 1984a: 54). This is not, it should be emphasized, just a matter of innovation. Innovation can take place within the system and consequently can strengthen it. In contrast the break that occurs in ...
... rules in the game of reasoning (Lyotard 1984a: 54). This is not, it should be emphasized, just a matter of innovation. Innovation can take place within the system and consequently can strengthen it. In contrast the break that occurs in ...
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... rules of our language and their effects, above all for what validates the adoption of rules: the quest for paralogy (ibid.: 66). Lyotard recognizes that computerization could become the “dream” instrument for extending the application ...
... rules of our language and their effects, above all for what validates the adoption of rules: the quest for paralogy (ibid.: 66). Lyotard recognizes that computerization could become the “dream” instrument for extending the application ...
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... is said is not said in isolation. It depends for its sense on a language game which supplies the rules for its sense. But any particular phrase or event can be followed by different phrases and 6 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
... is said is not said in isolation. It depends for its sense on a language game which supplies the rules for its sense. But any particular phrase or event can be followed by different phrases and 6 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
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... rules of exchange for discourse have their limits and their incommensurabilities, fluent systems of exchange can function to the neglect of the real needs and demands of interlocutors. The very conception of language as communication ...
... rules of exchange for discourse have their limits and their incommensurabilities, fluent systems of exchange can function to the neglect of the real needs and demands of interlocutors. The very conception of language as communication ...
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