Introduction Critical Traditions, Modernisms, and the "Posts"

My own position in this debate is to consider the particular intellectual contributions of Foucault, Bourdieu, and certain feminist theories in rethinking the problematic of schooling. I express this position in the first chapter that follows. This chapter, then, is to be viewed in relation to other traditions of thought that are expressed in the other chapters, bringing into focus the conversations among traditions as they are reworked to consider educational phenomena. These traditions range across neopragmatic, neo-Marxist, critical literary theory, postmodernist, and postcolonialist schools of thought.