CONTEXTUAL LEARNING IN THE MODERN PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM by Danica Veselinov, Ljiljana Kelemen Milojević, Jasmina Mirković

“…Modern perspectives on education and upbringing, and consequently on pedagogical and didactic implications, are based on the theoretical foundations of postmodern discourse: contemporary understandings of the philosophy of education, sociocultural theory, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. …”
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Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…This perspective criticizes postmodern relativism that often supports the PSHE. …”
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Narrative preaching - yet another perspective by J. J. van Rensburg

“…This interest was particularly enhanced by the postmodern emphasis on a hermeneutic approach and the importance of narratives and metaphors. …”
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Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass by Ilana Shiloh

“…Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New York Trilogy, which has since become one of the most iconic works of postmodern fiction. Artists Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have adapted Auster’s novella into a graphic novel and their version figures on the list of the best comic books in the 20th century. …”
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A Critical Analysis of the Book” Ambiguity Function in the Process of Reading a Text” by Maryam Raminnia

“…More evidently, reducing the ambiguity in stories, merely modern and postmodern ones, equaling the ambiguity with its complexities and discursivities, and also downgrading the ambiguity which are perceived as strategies for maintaining the author’s authority, are the main motives for writing this paper.…”
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(Post)utopian Vineland: Ideological Conflicts in the 1960s and the 1980s by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa

“…This paper delineates a revolutionary period in postmodern America: the sixties from the vantage point of the eighties as presented in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. …”
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Posthumanism: History, goals and imminent perils by Gajić Aleksandar, Despotović Ljubiša

“…The final part of the Paper concerns the critique of posthumanism from the perspective of Christian personalism, which opens up possibilities for us to have a different view of the problems of postmodern living that posthumanism wants to overcome.…”
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PROPOSING A SHIFT FROM CLASSICAL PENTECOSTAL BIBLE READING AND BACONIAN COMMON SENSE TO A SCIENTIFIC HERMENEUTICS by M. Nel

“…Since the 1990s, Pentecostal scholarship has revisited early Pentecostals’ use of Baconian common sense. In postmodern times, it is important to define a balanced Pentecostal hermeneutic to reconsider the use of Baconian common sense realism in Bible reading practices. …”
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Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson by Thomas A. Bredehoft

“…Ultimately, rather than presenting cyberspace as a liberatory, utopian space, as some postmodern theorists would have it, Gibson’s treatment of hallucinatory and futuristic iconographies suggests that cyberspace functions as the embodiment of past "Dreams" of the future, dreams which, Gibson hints, are at least partially responsible for the "near dystopia" of the present.…”
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Le genre tactile : repenser les imbrications entre la matière et la parole au prisme de l’imagination et de l’expérience by Luca Greco

“…I will propose a theoretical dialogue between two antagonistic traditions in feminism, neo-materialism and postmodernism, and gender, language and sexuality studies around the possible intertwinings between discourse and bodily materiality. …”
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Pistes pour renouveler l’interculturel en éducation  by Fred Dervin

“…As such the field often contributes to objectivising and culturalist “interculturality”, guiding actors (learners) towards monoculturalism instead of a postmodern and constructivist understanding of it. I shall try to demonstrate how systematic and reflexive work on the notion at school could allow renewing interculturality, by examining the notions of culture, identity and representation but also the role the “other” plays, contexts of interaction and discourses on the Self and the Other. …”
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Tony Lopez : le retour du réel by Helene Aji

“…This discourse contradicts the overwhelming rhetoric of the cynical trend of Postmodernism. This article defines Tony Lopez’s work at the turn of the millennium as enforcing a poetics beyond the empty gestures of pastiche and poetical karaoke, tensely negotiating the demands of survival in the consumer society and the quest to impart some meaning to this, our, world.…”
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Prosumer Neo-Tribes: An Ethnography of Recreational Cycling Communities by Kübra Aşan, Medet Yolal

“…AbstractIn postmodern community studies, a neo-tribal theoretical framework has been proposed to elucidate recreational and touristic communities, positing that neo-tribes coalesce around shared consumer experiences. …”
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Identité enseignante et collège inclusif : quels remaniements face à un environnement de travail en mutation ? by Benoit Piroux

“…This political will, coupled with a social evolution towards postmodernism, induced a deep mutation concerning the role of high school teachers, who are nowadays situated between, one of the hand their institution, hardly understandable because of the masses of daily directives, and on the other hand, their more and more heterogeneous “daily users”. …”
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Imitatio Christi and the holy folly of divine violence: the church as ultimate criminal by J. A. Meylahn

“…If the Christ event is read as an exemplary narrative of the post-metaphysics in the linguistic turn in the work of Derrida, this opens up new possibilities for both theology as well as the role of the church within the context of a postmodern world, and these possibilities will be explored. …”
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Practice of Physical Activity through Active Video Games in Addressing Obesity in Pediatric Ages by Brian Johan Bustos Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Carlos Alberto Romero Cuestas

“…These proposals constitute postmodern alternatives that motivate a change in sedentary behaviors to consolidate healthy lifestyle habits. …”
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Dini ve Manevi Eğitimin Öyküsel Pedagojisi by Clive Erricker

“…Öyküsel pedagojiler yapısalcı ve postmodern teorilere dayandığı için, eğitimin özünde modernist müfredat modelleriyle gerilim içindedir. …”
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Contemporary Christian spirituality: an "encompassing field" by C. Kourie, T. Ruthenberg

“…These discoveries are further enhanced through contemporary Christian spirituality’s own critical appreciation of globalisation and postmodernism. Contemporary Christian spirituality, at its best, constitutes a world-appreciative openness that nevertheless sustains its own unique identity. …”
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THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by M. M. Lebedeva, M. V. Harkevich

“…Constructivism is gaining popularity and postmodernism remains without followers. Russian international studies are structured by a long-standing debate about the identity of Russia. …”
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The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The audience’s attention is focused on finding and establishing connections between different elements of the performance, which resembles postmodern bricolage. The symbolic imagery of the production evokes a number of contexts among which the most expressive are mystery-metaphysical and grotesque-visional ones. …”
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