Postmodernism and Education

Question 1

Robin Usher’s theory 1997

Answer 1

• our education system needs to continue to adapt and change to fit postmodern society.
• ethnocentric curriculum.
• society is now ‘culturally plural’.
• the education system overlooks the personalised needs and wishes of the pupils
• adult education works better in terms of flexibility and choice.

Question 2

Michael Apples criticism

Answer 2

• schools are still controlled by politics
• postmodernists over exaggerate the degree of freedom in schools.
• education remains not personalised.