The challenge of educating the 'postmodern' child in a 'postmodern' age

Dr Fiachra Long discusses some of the fresh challenges facing educators in the 21st century.

The challenge of educating the 'postmodern' child in a 'postmodern' age

Traditionally teachers deal with knowledge, attitudes and skills. They involve themselves with the cognitive and emotional capacities of young people and they try to induct them into the science and social and political structures of the time the adults live in.

Traditional teachers see themselves as standing between the young people they teach and wider society represented by sound and steadfast institutions like the Banks, the Church, the legislature, Big Government.

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