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Modernist educational practice operates within an overarching norm of consonance, notions of sameness and agreement that permeate schools and classroom life. This paper posits a needed move to postmodern educational theory and practice through dissonance. Following an intellectual contextualization, two sets of philosophical claims are presented. The first promotes social construction of reality and the second poses dissonance rather than consonance. The paper concludes with a “look” at education from this postmodern perspective.
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Stone, L. Modern to postmodern: Social construction, dissonance, and education. Stud Philos Educ 13, 49–63 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074085
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