In this article, Nicholas Burbules and Suzanne Rice engage several of the central claims made by postmodern authors about the possibilities and limits of education. Specifically,they focus on postmodern conceptions of difference, and on the question of whether dialogue across differences, particularly differences in social power, is possible and worthwhile. In order to answer this question, Burbules and Rice distinguish two trends within postmodern thought: one extends and redefines modernist principles such as democracy, reason, and equality; the other deconstructs and rejects these principles. They argue that it is the redefinition of modernist principles, not their wholesale rejection, that offers educators the most hopeful and useful conception of dialogue across differences.
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1 December 1991
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Dialogue across Differences: Continuing the Conversation
Harvard Educational Review (1991) 61 (4): 393–417.
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Nicholas Burbules, Suzanne Rice; Dialogue across Differences: Continuing the Conversation. Harvard Educational Review 1 December 1991; 61 (4): 393–417. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.61.4.yr0404360n31j418
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