EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT-I - THE ATMOSPHERE OF POSTMODERNISM

The paper deals with the way postmodernism has been discussed within p hilosophy of education and argued for by some authors within this cont ext, and with what this kind of postmodernism can offer to education a nd to philosophy of education. Particular attention is paid to one of the basic presuppositions, namely the requirement to break with the cu ltural heritage and look for radical alternatives. A second paper will develop a different view of human action, following the later Wittgen stein, and draw on Frankfurt's ideas on 'the importance of what we car e about' to revitalise the conception of the educational project.