dr. fenwick w. english by james d. laub, presented in dr. kritsonis' phd class

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



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.



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.



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.



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.



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



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



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



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



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



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



WASP, no COWF

White

Anglo-Saxon

Protestant

Heterosexual

Male

No originality

Regurgitation



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



Postmodernism ala James Laub

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