Still Seeking the Audience?

Central to social theory at the moment is the serious attack launched by ‘post-modernism’ on the ‘foundational’ claims in social sciences, and on the ‘emancipatory narratives’ which they deploy rhetorically to claim legitimacy. Some aspects of this debate have entered discussions on the organisation of education generally (such as Green, 1994), and of distance education specifically (see, for example, Campion, 1989; Gillard, 1993; Edwards, 1991).