Definition
Key Concepts
Questions Asked
Implications for Today's Classroom Teacher
Miscellaneous
100
Modern period of history has ended and we now live in a
Postmodern era
100
Two french philosophers that were key figures in developing postmodernism.
Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida
100
Similar to ______, postmodernist teachers want to raise their students consciousness?
Existentialists
100
Before empowering their students, postmodernists must first empower ______?
Themselves as professional educators
100
True or False: Postmodernists believe that the notion of truth is a contrived illusion, misused by people and special interest groups to gain power over others. AKA there is no absolute truth
True
200
Originated in the philosophies of what two German Philosophers?
Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger
200
Postmodernists use the concepts of ______ and ______.
Subordination and Marginalization
200
Postmodernists see American public schools as ______.
Battlegrounds in the struggle for social, political and economic domination.
200
Postmodernists urge teachers to create their own _____?
Site based educational philosophy
200
Postmodernists defend “Mother Earth." They blame ______ for its destruction.
Western Society
300
Postmodernism has implications for______. A psychology and method of education.
Constructivism
300
Developed method used to trace the origin and the meaning of texts or canons
Deconstruction
300
Postmodernists refer to instruction as a ______.
Representation
300
Teachers, students and community members must examine a couple of questions before they begin a local, site-based examination of key control issues. Name one.
1) Who actually controls their school, establishes curriculum, and sets the academic standards? 2) What motivates those who control the school? 3) What rationale justifies the existing curriculum?
300
"Liberal ethics": Postmodernists defend the cause of _____ and _______.
Feminists and homosexuals
400
____ agree that we make, or construct our beliefs about knowledge from our experiences of interacting with our environment.
Postmodernists and constructivists
400
Give one of the questions postmodernists ask when deconstructing a canon or text.
1) What people, events, and situations at a particular time gave prominence to the canon? 2) Who gives a canon a privileged status in a culture or society, and who benefits from its acceptance as an authority? 3) Does the canon exclude underrepresented and marginalized individuals and groups?
400
True or False: Postmodernists believe that the "underrepresented groups" should be included in the curriculum.
True
400
Postmodernist view on Technology and how they would use it
A postmodernist teacher would examine the representations in software for student use, as well as to consider issues of power related to students' access to technology
400
True or False: Postmodernists claim that national boundaries are a hindrance to human communication. Therefore, postmodernists often propose internationalism and uniting separate countries.
True
500
The sharing of experiences and ideas through language, makes our discourse about knowledge both a personal and social construction.
Collaborative Learning
500
Postmodernists raise questions about what two things?
Who sets the standards for education and who determines the skills and subjects found in the curriculum
500
True or False: Postmodernists do not encourage the deconstruction of the "Common Core State Standards."
False, they do encourage the deconstruction.
500
Give an example of what a postmodernist lesson would be like.
Students in a high school American history class might examine how Mexicans living in the territories that Mexico was forced to cede to the US after the Mexican War were marginalized. *lesson might include a journal assignment*
500
Postmodernists claim that ______ are too limiting to determine anything. "What is fact today can be false tomorrow."
Facts
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