Themes of Postmodern Education

A postmodern Pandora's box: anti-vaccination misinformation on the Internet.

The Internet plays a large role in disseminating anti-vaccination information. This paper builds upon previous research by analyzing the arguments proffered on anti-vaccination websites, determining the extent of misinformation present, and examining discourses used to support vaccine objections. Arguments around the themes of safety and effectiveness, alternative medicine, civil liberties, con...

Organizational Climate in Its Semiotic Aspect: A Postmodern Community College Undergoes Renewal

Article: The postmodern community college is a site of expanding missions, chaotic environmental turbulence, and increasing heterogeneity both within the publics served and among organizational members (Bergquist, 1998). These and other postmodern challenges call for transformational leadership that facilitates productive responses to change so that increased institutional effectiveness ensues....

Evolution of Research in Distance Education: A Postmodern Perspective

Recurring Themes in Author's Subconscious A Look at a Collection of Short Stories: The Wrong People by Shiva Moghanlou

Little more than a century has gone by after the first applications of psychoanalytic and psychological approaches to literary criticism, however, even in this relatively shorter span, these approaches have been able to open up new perspectives in the analysis and critique of literary texts. In an analysis of three collections of short stories by the Persian writer (Shiva Moghanlou)that were pu...

Shifting from Developmental to Postmodern Practices in Early Childhood Teacher Education

Changing times and postmodern perspectives have disrupted the taken-for-granted relationship between child development knowledge and the preparation of early childhood teachers. Despite ongoing exchanges about how best to respond to the critique of the developmental knowledge base, few descriptions of how particular teacher educators have gone about reconceptualizing their curriculum exist. Emp...