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12 Aug 08

Paralysed by postmodernism | The Australian

  • postmodernism's pedagogical impact at these lower levels in the educational hierarchy was, if anything, even worse than its intellectual impact at higher levels
  • Much more concerning was a strange kind of linguistic determinism at play throughout their theoretical sections and chapters. Almost without exception these student authors argued as if the language that people speak forces or causes them to think and act in certain ways.
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Thirty Great Books on Education

  • He contrasts this with the postmodern possibility of a curriculum that is composed of �complex and spontaneous interactions,� a transformative process that embodies the new �Four R�s�: Richness (referring to curriculum�s depth, multiple layers of meaning, and multiple possibilities of interpretation); Recursion (the reflective interaction with the environment, others, culture, and with one�s own knowledge); Relations (the making of connections, and the understanding that our immediate perceptions integrate into a larger cultural, economic and cosmic matrix); and Rigor (conceived as a dialectic between the complexity of indeterminacy and critical interpretation).
15 Jul 07

JVoices » Blog Archive » The Twisted Wick: Talmud Study as Spiritual Practice for Post-Modern Jews

  • Jewish learning on the other hand is an end in itself. Our tradition teaches us that religious study ought to be “lishma,” for its own sake. Judaism cautions us against using the Torah as an ax to dig with.In other words, we must not learn as a way to reach a goal, even if that goal is a worthy one. In Hebrew sacred study, limmud, is distinct from goal-oriented education, hinuch.
  • Talmudic texts are so complex and intricately woven together that just following the flow of the arguments takes total concentration in the present moment.
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15 Oct 06

"Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’ - Forward.com"

  • flexidoxy is a “postmodern label” that is intentionally self-contradictory. “On the one hand, it says I’m sort of Orthodox but flexible, but on the other it says that my beliefs are flexible — which is healthy but it does question whether there is Truth with a capital T, which is the essence of Orthodox belief.”
  • In other words, flexidox Jews have practice, but not theory. Flexidoxy is defined by its refusal to defend itself or invent rationales to justify this or that deviation from traditional religious practice. In contrast, say, to the Conservative Jew who says that ancient religious law evolves, or the Reform Jew who says it is irrelevant, the flexidox Jew takes no position on what Jewish law actually is — only on how he or she interacts with it. “What has been so liberating about being in this flexidox place is the intimacy of the relationship,” Amrami says. “There are no set rules, no survival guide of how-to or how-not-to — it’s about being in relationship to my own spirit, my own relationship to God and our world.”
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12 Jun 06

Television in American Popular Culture

  • "She’s
    Unpredictable":

    Illyria and the Liberating Potential of

    Chaotic Postmodern Identity
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