Article: The postmodern community college is a site of expanding missions, chaotic environmental turbulence, and increasing heterogeneity both within the publics served and among organizational members (Bergquist, 1998). These and other postmodern challenges call for transformational leadership that facilitates productive responses to change so that increased institutional effectiveness ensues....

The Western world has seen a significant shift in the epistemic values of spiritual seekers in the past quarter of a century; many have referred to the new epistemic approach as postmodern spirituality. Among the attributes unique to this growing cultural force are the prominence of mystery, enchantment, and the prehension of a numinous other (which need not be a theistic other) as key means of...

The postmodern take on action research has increased the range of critique and reflection. The addition of complexity theory/cybernetics has developed a fertile ground for new developments in action research by redefining the role of theory in interaction to practice. Theory no longer represents, is no longer the result of mere analysis. They are communications that help to compare events and p...

Notions of the 'postmodern' pervade various fields of study, but have rarely been applied to the practice and theory of nursing. This paper uses some conceptions of the 'postmodern' to remedy this. Though there are many contested usages of the term, here 'postmodern' will be used broadly in a periodical sense to trace changes in society and culture from the 'modernism' of the 18th and 19th cent...

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

Postmodernism is a very ambiguous term. It attracted many researchers from different fields of knowledge in the late 1960s. This article explains intertextuality as a critical means to derive its concepts and components in order to understand the hidden layers of meaning in postmodern pluralist ideology. Variable thoughts of postmodern architecture have been divided into two categories—Hi...

the main goals of current essay are explanation and analysis of modern-postmodern contentions to do determining the role of philosopher of education for the purpose of evolution in education. the method is critical philosophical discovery with two main lines of rational and emancipatory approaches. although there are important contentions between modern and postmodern thoughts the inquiry indic...

It seems it is especially postmodern literature that undermines the belief in a clear and direct relationship between the physical world and the language depicting it. Quite recently, especially the possible worlds theories and their application in literary theory have tried to explain this relationship. Analyzing the narrative techniques used by Donald Barthelme in his short story The Dragon, ...

This special issue of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction presents a collation of articles exploring the application of postmodern methods in the context of human-computer interaction. Postmodernism, and by implication any possibility for postmodern methods, have become increasingly marginalised topics in most academic circles. Postmodernism, it seems, has become the i...