"A well written and stimulating excursion into postmodern education. Parker's challenge to critical educational theory can in the long run only help the left rethink and deepen its political project. " - Peter McLaren University of California Los Angeles. This is a book about two stories of education. In one story there is a vocabulary of means efficiency bureaucracy inspection and science; in the other one of autonomy democracy emancipation and action research. One is the story of positivist managerialist approaches to education the other is the story of reflective teaching. This book displaces both of these stories. By applying the techniques of deconstruction Stuart Parker overturns the assumptions common to both of these positions and in doing so jettisons some widely cherished beliefs about education autonomy and rationality. Moving beyond current debates this book articulates a new manifesto for education in postmodernity and highlights the implications for educational practices and institutions. Language: English