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8/8/2019 Dr. Fenwick W. English by James D. Laub, Presented in Dr. Kritsonis' PhD Class
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The Postmodern Challenge to the Theory andPractice of Educational Administration
by Fenwick English
James LaubEDUL 7073
Prairie View A & M UniversityWilliam Kritsonis, PhD
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Definitions ² Part I
Antitent ± Feeling or showing little concern or motivation, to setsomething against something else.
Aporia ± untranslatable meanings or gaps, hidden borders andboundaries that are imprecise, a figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question, an insolublecontradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.
Apostrophic ± act of turning away, the addressing of a usuallyabsent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically in the courseof a speech or composition
Atheoritical ± profiles no theory to center any specific practice, butrather is open to consider all claims and the theories which may defineand support them.
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Definitions ² Part I (continued) Cathexis ± is the libido¶s charge of energy - often described the
functioning of psychosexual energies in mechanical terms, influencedperhaps by the dominance of the steam engine at the end of thenineteenth century
Certitude ± a claim, posture or practice that rests upon one method,one model or one idea of a singular, universal truth, the state of beingcertain; complete assurance; confidence, sureness of occurrence or result; inevitability, something that is assured or unfailing
Hegemony ± influence or authority over others: domination, a journey undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable
situation; exodus, the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others
Hermeneutics ± the study of the theory and methodologicalprinciples of interpretation, especially of scriptural text.
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Definitions - Part I (continued)
Interiority ± deals with the mind, motivation and inner life of a humanbeing, relating to, or located on the inside, relating to one's mental or spiritual being.
Logocentrism ± structuralist method of analysis, especially of literary works, that focuses upon words and language to the exclusionof non-linguistic matters, such as an author's individuality or historicalcontext. Excessive attention paid to the meanings of words or distinctions in their usage
Mountebanks ± Opera about the story of people drinking a potion tomake them actually become the characters they are pretending to be.
Panoply ± a splendid or striking array, ceremonial attire with allaccessories, something that covers and protects: the complete armsand armor of a warrior.
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Definitions - Part I (continued)
Phlogiston ± of, relating to, or inducing inflammation or fever;inflammatory, a hypothetical substance formerly thought to be avolatile constituent of all combustible substances, released as flame in
combustion Satyagraha ± the policy of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by
Mahatma Gandhi as a means of pressing for political reform
Strophes ± the first of a pair of stanzas of alternating form on whichthe structure of a given poem is based, a stanza containing irregular lines, the first division of the triad constituting a section of a Pindaricode, the first movement of the chorus in classical Greek drama whileturning from one side of the orchestra to the other.
Tautology ± needless repetition of the same sense in different words;redundancy, an instance of such repetition, an empty or vacuousstatement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes itlogically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false.
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Postmodernism
Open to consider all claims and theories,do not necessarily replace existing
theories but challenge existingboundaries
Always options, possibilities andprobabilities
Systematic improvement ± not statusquo
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Postmodernism
Truth is lost in the politics of consensus
Decisions should fit the context, not a
standard cookie cutter approach
Individuality, founded in linguistics and
personal knowledge and meanings ± not
standard measures and assumptionsthat conform to society
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Criticisms of Postmodernism
New concept that lacks boundaries and
definitions
Proposes nothing new
Intellectually barren ± lacks no precision
Passing fad and fashion
No solid foundation
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Existentialism
Reality is subjective, values, thoughts and
ideas are freely chosen
Individualism and individual decision making Connect with the personal and relevant
Responsibility for ones self and ones choices
Engage your mind and energy, do not rely on
the thinking of others
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Educational Administration Theories
Taylor
Weber
Deming Covey
Theories founded in
faddish management
trends and business
arena. 100 years of theoretical ³tomfoolery´
Abandon conventional
wisdom, enter the realm of
the taboo
Subjectivity The unconscious
Values and morality
Decision making by
culture, context and time
Individuality
Creative thinking ±
outside the box
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Thinking outside the Box
Louis Pasteur Failed to follow standard
scientific procedures and
methods Worked off a ³hunch´and common sense
Jonas Salk Criticized by peers
Kitchen chemistry Barry Marshall
Challenged acceptedmedical knowledge
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WASP, no COWF
White
Anglo-Saxon
Protestant
Heterosexual
Male
No originality
Regurgitation
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Postmodernism ala Philip Phenix
Symbolics Verbal, nonverbal, non-
discursive language
Empirics Understanding logical
patterns and forms
Appeal to the imagination
Esthetics Total student, kinesthetic,languages, arts ± mind,body and spirit
Synnoetics Personal knowledge and
meanings
Ethics Values and morals, does
it help society
Synoptics Subjectivity, society, and
intellectual content in andacross all academicdisciplines
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Postmodernism ala James Laub