Answer to Question #301828 in Sociology for Thando

Question

What contribution do you think postmodernism, as a philosophy of education can make in your classroom practice?  

Answer 1

In education, I understand postmodern perspective as an approach to educational change or extension from modern one across the broad spectrum. Postmodern approach can be defined by the word: particularity.

Regarding postmodernist, the aims of education are teaching critical thinking, production of knowledge, development of individual and social identity, self creation. In postmodern education teachers just lead students to discover new things.

Postmodern enables one to identify students with differences within age groups while modern students were defined in terms of difference between age groups. One example is “developmentally appropriate practice, which gears schools to the development rather than the chronological age of children” urged by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Postmodern has also enabled educators to focus on individual differences in learning rather than “uniformity of thought, knowledge, practice, and curriculum.