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Postmodernist Perspective - Coggle Diagram
Postmodernist Perspective
EVALUATION
:( vast majority of academies choose to follow national curriculum + still focus mainly on getting students the best grades in their GCSEs + STEM subjects still have more status than critical thinking subjects so diversity isn't as prominent as perhaps implied or expected
:( lack of innovation in free schools
:( some evidence that the setting up of free schools has led to polarisation as in one area children were thriving in an ethically diverse primary until a local free school was set up as most of the children who left to go to free school were white middle class which led to segregation rather than more diversity (middle class white flight)
:( homeschooling may just mean children being taken out of school + receiving no education - regressive rather than progressive
:( still control over schools as there are conditions which determine how money is spent so individual control isn't that high
:( isn't actually a move way from a centralised curriculum as the vast majority of schools spend most of the time teaching the standard national curriculum, focussing on getting their students through their KS4 exams
:( personalised learning is supported by schools but the reality is that very few schools take action to do and often learning plan aren't unique, just copied and pasted + infrequently reviewed
:( online learning has been found to be drastically less effective that in person education
to determine if mainstream education is becoming more postmodern then we would expect to see evidence of all or most of the following:
more diversity of school types + more freedom of choice for parents (i.e. homeschooling)
less centralised control of schools + more autonomy for individual schools
move away from prescriptive national curriculum
more personalised + individual learning programmes for students in schools
schools making use of more online learning platforms
greater diversity of education experience
Education system responding to postmodernisation
education may become more sonsumerist
become more global in outlook
teach children strategies to cope with new global risks + uncertainties
relatively modernistic, centralised curriculum
move to more online learning
Postmodern education
display a certain amount of doubt towards metanarratives
realistic attitude towards what knowledge is taught as part of a curriculum
may even abandon concept of curriculum altogether
education under postmodernism might be individualised, more diverse + offer more choice of subjects + learning pathways to learners
might also consider it to be more playful, more hyperreal + express a certain incredulity towards metanarratives
rise of apprenticeships
teaching global issues
teaching strategies to cope with new risks in society