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    IMPLEMENTING POSTMODERNISM IN CHANGING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN AMERICA’S SCHOOLS Arthur L. Petterway‚ PhD June 11‚ 2010 IMPLEMENTING POSTMODERNISM IN CHANGING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN AMERICA’S SCHOOLS Arthur L. Petterway‚ PhD Principal‚ 12th Grade Academy Stephen F. Austin High School Houston Independent School District Houston‚ Texas Adjunct Professor‚ Educational Leadership & Counseling Prairie View A & M University Prairie View‚ Texas ABSTRACT This

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    Heroes and Villains in Postmodernism The perfect (maybe) word to write about in Urban Dictionary because everything you say about it is encompassed by it. So if I were to say that Postmodernism is a goat‚ I am of course‚ right (left). If I say that Postmodernism is an art movement based on the unsurity of a declining art market of the 90 ’s‚ I ’d be correct (whatever that means). Eat your Captain Crunch‚ look at a Madonna video and drink a glass of Tang. Reality is media. Reality is simulation.

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    Positive and Negative Impacts of Postmodernism Having its roots in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment‚ modernism was the era of universal truth which was objectively understood and interpreted by humankind. Postmodernism‚ the period starting around 1950’s to present‚ rejects this notion of an objective and universal truth. Instead the postmodernist view of meaning is ambiguous and truth is relative to an individual or a group. Furthermore‚ postmodernism rejects the validity of grand narratives

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    Marxism and Functionalism can be described as ’modernist’ theories in society that first emerged in western Europe from about the late 18th century following the industrial revolution and the mass industrialisation of the western world. The ability to mass produce following Fordism and the start of a global market. Postmoderists - Whoms name dervives from a style of arcutecture that used a combination of both old and modern materials in order to achieve the best result. Believe that society is comprised

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    consider some of the events and thinking that led up to the development of this particular school of social theory. I shall then consider some of the common strands of thinking in postmodernism concentrating mainly on the writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. I shall then consider the view of David Harvey‚ a Marxist many consider to be writing in the postmodern tradition‚ who argues that post-modernism is just another form of capitalism. Having analysed his argument I shall conclude

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    consider some of the events and thinking that led up to the development of this particular school of social theory. I shall then consider some of the common strands of thinking in postmodernism concentrating mainly on the writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. I shall then consider the view of David Harvey‚ a Marxist many consider to be writing in the postmodern tradition‚ who argues that post-modernism is just another form of capitalism. Having analysed his argument I shall conclude

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    According to Woodward‚ Lyotard contends that the technical and technological changes over the last few decades - as well as the development of capitalism - have caused the production of knowledge to become increasingly influenced by a technological model. Knowledge has become a commodity‚ and is no longer valuable in itself. This is linked to the division between what Lyotard calls ‘narrative knowledge’ and ‘scientific knowledge’. Narrative knowledge

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    actual beginning of the post modern era is unknown‚ it is best believed to have started in the mid – 1900’s. There have been many influences driving the postmodern way of thinking‚ some of the more influential of these potentially being Jean-François Lyotard‚ Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. Of course‚ this is left to interpretation. Postmodern thinkers believe that there is no absolute truth. They believe that what is true for one person can be false for another. So what is false one day could

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    Postmodernism ¡§There is a sense in which if one sees modernism as the culture of modernity‚ postmodernism is the culture of postmodernity¡¨ (Sarup 1993). ¡§Modern‚ overloaded individuals‚ desperately trying to maintain rootedness and integrity...ultimately are pushed to the point where there is little reason not to believe that all value-orientations are equally well-founded. Therefore‚ increasingly‚ choice becomes meaningless. According to Baudrillard (1984: 38-9)‚ we must now come to terms

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    Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism In his book‚ Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism‚ author James K.A. Smith takes three postmodern thinkers to school by breaking down ideas they profess and applying them to the postmodern church. Even though the authors cited in Smith’s book come from secular backgrounds‚ the statements are broken down and dissected into ways the Radical Orthodox Church can hearken back to ancient ideals while moving forward in the progressive postmodern age. Smith begins his book by attempting

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