Module 14: Texts and Contexts – the core dynamic in Holistic Education
Module description:
In relation to a working definition of the process of holistic development this module looks at the nature of, and use of, the idea of ‘texts and contexts’ by the teacher, or other practitioner, so as to encourage learning, professional development and/or personal growth.
“If the postmodern is a collage — as some critics have suggested — or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way of understanding the world? The Frame and the Mirror uses this question to probe the distinctive character of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation…………
More than an introduction to the postmodern, The Frame and the Mirror advances our understanding of the contemporary world by relating its features to the peculiar characteristics of collage. Ultimately, Brockelman shows how collage demands that we reinterpret modernity, conceiving of it as suspended between a loss of certainty and a new kind of knowledge about the human condition. In doing so, his work challenges many of the claims made in the name of postmodernism — and offers in their place a new and ironic view of the cultural space in which contemporary and historical events occur.
from a review of The Frame and the Mirror: On Collage & Postmodernism by Thomas P. Brockelman 2001 Northwestern Uni Press
Introductory reading/s to get started:
http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-postmd.htm
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem08c.html #
A sense of the field can be obtained from Roger Stack’s ‘Map’ of Holistic Education see also his blog
