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Clutching the Lectern, or Shouting from the Back of the Hall: A Comparison of Modern and Postmodern Arts Education.(shaping arts education policies)

Arts Education Policy Review,  March, 1997  by FEHR, DENNIS E.

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In this paper, I share my understanding of modernism and postmodernism and how each shapes arts education policy. Personifying them for comparison, I suggest that modernism views the cosmos as binary. Hence, it regards postmodernism as its opposite. It sometimes sniffs at what it feels is postmodernism's brashness.

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A defining aspect of postmodernism is its degree of emphasis on the interconnectedness of world cultures and the attendant need to tolerate conflicting views. It regards modernism and itself as voices that sometimes speak in unison and sometimes in discord, sometimes ...

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