| Description |
ix, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
'...Opening...' -- 1. Fashioning postmodernism, finishing modernism: tales from the fitting room -- 2. Jack in two boxes: a postmodern perspective on the transformation of persons into portraits -- 3. Eccentric subject, impossible object: a postmodern reading of Hannah Cullwick -- 4. Is Halloween postmodern? -- 5. Mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique? Dilemmas in the deconstruction of educational discourse -- 6. Can the mothers of invention make virtue out of necessity? An optimistic deconstruction of research compromises in contract research and evaluation -- 7. Telling transitions: boundary work in narratives of becoming an action researcher -- 8. Untelling transitions -- 9. Enclosures -- '...The mourning after the knight before...' -- App. 1. The R & R instrument -- App. 2. An example of an R & R response -- App. 3. Reminder poem |
| Notes |
'...Opening...' -- 1. Fashioning postmodernism, finishing modernism: tales from the fitting room -- 2. Jack in two boxes: a postmodern perspective on the transformation of persons into portraits -- 3. Eccentric subject, impossible object: a postmodern reading of Hannah Cullwick -- 4. Is Halloween postmodern? -- 5. Mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique? Dilemmas in the deconstruction of educational discourse -- 6. Can the mothers of invention make virtue out of necessity? An optimistic deconstruction of research compromises in contract research and evaluation -- 7. Telling transitions: boundary work in narratives of becoming an action researcher -- 8. Untelling transitions -- 9. Enclosures -- '...The mourning after the knight before...' -- App. 1. The R & R instrument -- App. 2. An example of an R & R response -- App. 3. Reminder poem. 000012864671 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-188) and index |
| Subject |
Deconstruction.
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Education -- Research -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism and education.
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| Author |
MacLure, Margaret.
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| LC no. |
96048465 |
| ISBN |
0335194338 (paperback) |
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0335194346 (hc) |
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