ABSTRACT
Current directions in education reflect an integral movement within a metamodern philosophy. According to Bunnell (2015), metamodernism as a term first appeared as early as the 1970s, but it was Dutch cultural theorists Vermeulen and Akker (2010) who first used the notion of metamodernism to suggest that current issues, such as the financial crisis and the digital revolution, ushered in a new age beyond postmodernism. Metamodermism mingles elements of modernist and postmodern thought by negotiating universal truths among relativist perspectives. Vermeulen and Akker (2010) suggested that metamodernism is positioned between ‘a modern desire for sens [meaning] and a postmodern doubt about the sense of it all’ (p. 6).
