ABSTRACT
Popper (1972) suggests ‘three ontologically distinct sub-worlds’. World 1, the physical reality of tools and bodies. World 2, the reality of consciousness, such as subjective knowledge and experience, is an interface between Worlds 1 and 3. World 3 is an amassed episteme-like knowledge and theories in objective sense, including poetics, arts, logics, axiology, philosophy, and theology. They all, World 3 in particular, constitute the curriculum in education today. World 3 is cumulative, yet, if Popper is right, never universal and definitive. For joiners of postmodernism, this latter World consists of metanarratives that should be deconstructed. However, the coexistence of theories at odds (e.g. Popper’s vs. Kuhn’s) is a main characteristic of postmodernity and, consequently, agreement over the definition of what postmodernity (époque/philosophy) and postmodernism (movement) is unheard of.
