A Critical Primer on Postmodernism: Lessons from Educational Scholarship for Librarianship

Autor/inn/en	Buschman, John; Brosio, Richard A.
Titel	A Critical Primer on Postmodernism: Lessons from Educational Scholarship for Librarianship
Quelle	In: Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32 (2006) 4, S.408-418 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0099-1333
DOI	10.1016/j.acalib.2006.03.008
Schlagwörter	Library Science; Library Research; Postmodernism; Educational Research; Social Systems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bibliothekswissenschaft; Postmoderne; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Social system; Soziales System
Abstract	Postmodernism is still the subject of vigorous ongoing debate in a variety of fields like education and anthropology and has now arrived in the literature of librarianship. Prior conflicts generated over postmodernism remain--including academic areas where it has been declared passe. This paper summarizes postmodernism and its intellectual contributions, and then highlights its shortcomings via critical educational scholarship utilizing that field as a framework of analysis for librarianship. This is undertaken to relate both strengths of and problems with postmodernist theories for current work among scholars in librarianship. We do so to learn from the course of debate in another field and to challenge postmodern research trends in librarianship that do not account for the cultural and economic effects of capitalism. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10