포스트모던 교육에 대한 비판적 고찰 = Critical Examination of Postmodern Educational Thought

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Postmodernism has become a main stream of overall discourses as well as the academic world today. I attempt to investigate its rationale that rejects and deconstructs the universal, objective world view and the principles of moral, ethical life based on the reason which is a common ground of intellectual and cultural tradition of western modern society. The postmodernist deconstruction of modernism is accomplished through the principles of interpritive thinking, deconstruction of self being the subject of reason, and rejection of historical sequences and progress. Postmodern arguments denigrate modern rationality, and entertain the idea of anarchism and nihilism. The anarchistic and nihilistic nature of postmodernism invites both of doubt and criticism about the practical results it can lead to. Furthermore, since education is a practical as well as theoretical, it is doubt whether the standpoint adopted by the postmodern principles can make a reformative alternative can be acceptible and justifiable in educational practice. I offer a critique of postmodernism with focus on its strengths and conceptual contradictions. And I point out the incompetence and emptiness of postmodern critique of modern education, and clarify the danger inherent in the postmodern educational thought.