Modern liberal rationales continue to inform a majority of teaching and learning in English art classrooms. In a postmodern Western society increasingly informed by neoliberal globalisation this ...approach begins to look either like an anachronism or an act of outmoded pedagogic resistance. What is certain is that the modern liberal tradition is increasingly irrelevant to a young generation of learners, but while alternative paradigms have subsequently been suggested none have come to replace the stubbornly established rationales of modernism and liberalism. This article suggests novel futures for the justification and relevance of art education that move beyond those currently prevalent. Preferable futures are suggested that synthesise postmodern practice with liberal ideals in a paradox requiring creative consideration. While the difficulties of drawing upon such contradictory rationales are noted, a case is made that if such a purpose might be accepted and imbedded in art educational futures, then there may result a more relevant and sustainable future for art education in England.
Today's consumers have a postmodern perception and demonstrate a profile that is freer than their predecessors, more densely living their individuality, and trying more to put their own presence on ...the streets and in consumption of products and services such as tourism. It has been ascertained that there is a lack of studies to determine post-modern tourist typologies in especially Turkish tourism literature. Based on this testimony, this study used a Five Factor Personality Features Scale to determine the personality traits of tourists and the Vals scale for values determination. In addition, it also sought to unpack the lifestyles of the respondents in the questionnaire as potential tourists in Balıkesir province, Turkey. Ten different scenarios were created by analyzing the related literature in order to measure which of the responder's post-modern and modern tourism concepts have been adopted. Five of these scenarios were designed to measure post-modern tourism conceptions, while the other five were designed to measure modern tourism conceptions. In the end, by associating the personality traits of potential tourists with their values and lifestyles, an attempt was made to categorize individuals who are likely to have modern and postmodern tourism inclinations and the results obtained were then carefully evaluated.
For 30 years – between 1980 and 2010 – arq magazine was directed and edited by the architect Montserrat Palmer Trias. This text analyzes her legacy, through the 76 issues under her direction, ...emphasizing not only the risks she took by giving space to young architects to the detriment of more established colleagues, but also the drives – rational or sensitive – behind the editorial stakes she took during her period in the journal.
The present paper discusses moral ideas expressed in the contemporary novel of the realistic, modernist and postmodern conventions. More precisely, it tries to define how the poetics of a given ...convention determines the novel’s ethical thought. It is argued that both the modernist and postmodern fiction, which are often perceived as amoral or relativist, are morally committed, though perhaps not as much as the realistic convention. The shape of this moral commitment is consistent with the dominant of each convention (epistemological in modernism and ontological in postmodernism). These theoretical considerations are subsequently illustrated with three case studies of Virginia Woolf’s novels (each of which represents a different convention). Throughout the whole essay the emphasis falls on the meaning of the novelistic form, i.e. on the way that the novel’s form conveys the novel’s interpretation of reality.
Purpose: Conducting contemporary art lessons with a traditional art history view and a chronological approach leads to misinterpretations - and even to prejudices - of contemporary art as it is not ...progressing chronologically, cannot be assessed within specific stylistic forms and defined with strict lines, unlike previous traditional art disciplines. Based upon this problem, in this study, a new course process was planned in which contemporary art pieces are compared to traditional pieces focusing on the five major themes contemporary art differs from traditional art. Within the scope of this research dealing with this process, answers have been sought to the questions how comparative art history education through themes influences the perception of art, professional, personal, social progress of pre-service teachers and what sort of changes this method creates. Methodology: Research findings designed as action research were obtained by reviewing activity forms prepared for the lesson and semi-structured focus group interview. Gathered data were interpreted by the descriptive analysis method. Findings: The findings obtained in this study suggest that this method helps pre-service teachers define art with a broader perspective, better understand and embrace contemporary art, develop awareness about social issues conveyed through contemporary pieces, explore different expression possibilities for art practices and to form new opinions about art education in a professional sense. Implications for Research and Practice: Pre-service teachers expressed positive views for the comparison technique and providing an environment for expressing oneself freely. Within this context, it is suggested to design discussion-based art history lesson plans around specific themes.
The Popularity of Postmodernism Chute, Hillary
Twentieth century literature,
09/2011, Letnik:
57, Številka:
3-4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
(Stylistically, it is my view that literary modernism and postmodernism are very similar.\n If Joseph Frank called attention to spatial form in modern literature in his classic 1945 essay of the same ...name, he was, in W. J. T. Mitchell's words, actually calling attention to a general experience of reading literature, in any time period.12 But comics intensifies and makes conspicuously necessary the spatial experience of literature; it is a form that is itself a procedure of mapping (mapping time into space; providing orthogonal views). The importance of a focus on mapping generally has made possible the flourishing of a theoretical glossary-however in flux-for comics.13 (I might also add that Jameson's focus on the cognitive in 1991 was prescient, as the domain of the cognitive is practically, along with studies of affect, the emergent or even now dominantly fashionable analytic in our field.) Without the sophisticated focus on space, evinced in the enduring power of terms such as "cognitive mapping" and the entry into architecture proposed to students of literature by postmodernism, the critical language for comics wouldn't have had the chance to aerate the way it has; to find proportionate and analogical possible critical and theoretical vocabularies.
According to Foucault, language's fall from the happy, intimate condition of being continuous with the world-in what he calls language's demotion to the mere status of an object-leads to three types ...of compensation, in three main areas of knowledge production. Offering the semblance of positivity and universality, the graphic is simultaneously cryptic and enigmatic, its readily visible forms impen etrable even to sophisticated readers, who are typically at a loss as to what it means without detailed explanations, without the help of words.2 The coexistence of these polar aspects suggests that scientific graphicity needs to be rethought as a special epistemic setting, one in which the ongoing modern sense of a crisis in language continues to play itself out in the form of a fantasy.
Purpose In recent decades western cities have slowly evolved to extend their cultural offer to "the postmodern mixing of public and commercial culture" (Richards, 2014, p. 120) as a major plank of ...urban regeneration and development strategies. Urban tourism has been central to this and tourists are now an ever present temporary population of cultural consumers in so many of our towns and cities, even in those industrial cities that until recently would not have been imagined as tourist places. Tourism is thus a part of everyday urban life (Urry, 2002) whether we gaze on tourists going from one cultural space to another in our home towns or whether we ourselves are transformed into tourists as we conduct our cultural consumption in places distant to our usual workaday lives. This research note considers the impact such consumption is having on our urban centres. The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect on the way our urban centres are managed, who the urban citizen now is, and in what direction could tourism research take to shed further light on the way we manage, create and reproduce urban life in the increasingly diverse postmodern city. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a critical reflection on urban tourism and offers a future research orientation. Findings The argument is that in light of new mobilities urban tourism research needs to be more politically reflexive than it often is. Research limitations/implications There is no empirical research content so this does not apply. Practical implications The practical implications are that urban tourism research should be about making cities better places and not simply about being policy performing vehicles in a politically light sense. Originality/value The originality of this piece is in the way it mixes urban studies, social theory and tourism studies together to come out with a view and argument on a way forward in researching tourism and cities.
Purpose:
This research is providing social workers with a deeper insight into the process of empowering people from disadvantaged communities with leadership abilities by applying a narrative ...approach in group work and to develop members’ individual potential within their social construction of leaders and leadership.
Method:
This research was undertaken following the developmental and utilization model of Grinnell with a combined qualitative and quantitative research approach. The research was performed from a postmodern and social constructivist paradigm and therefore relied more on the qualitative research perspective.
Results:
The research includes guidelines for a group work narrative leadership program. The impact of the social constructionist approach on the group members re-authors their narratives.
Conclusions:
Group work by means of the narrative approach in social work is recommended because it has become evident from this study that a richer description of the lives of people can be gained.
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