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Poststructuralism and Educational Research
reviewed by Todd Ream - 2005
Title: Poststructuralism and Educational Research
Author(s): Michael A. Peters and Nicholas C. Burbules
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
ISBN: 0847691195, Pages: 111, Year: 2004
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As an intellectual movement, poststructuralism defied the boundaries of philosophy and worked its way into other academic fields of inquiry. On one level, poststructuralism’s influence is present in the knowledge base in almost all of the disciplines. On another level, poststructuralism’s influence is more acute in the methodological commitments that give rise to the boundaries that define a particular knowledge base. In Poststructuralism and Educational Research, Michael A. Peters and Nicholas C. Burbules assess the significance of poststructuralism within education on the second of these two levels. Their effort is the latest contribution to the Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research series published by Rowman and Littlefield. Previous works in this series include Postpositivism and Educational Research (2000) by D.C. Phillips and Nicholas Burbules and Pragmatism and Educational Research (2003) by Gert J.J. Biesta and Nicholas C. Burbules. Burbules not only edits this series but serves as the second author of each contribution. In the end, perhaps the significance of Poststructuralism and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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