MICHAEL PETERS is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests are in the areas of postmodernism and poststructuralism. He has edited Performance and Accountability (1990) and published more than 60 journal articles and numerous chapters in edited volumes on educational policy and philosophy.

• Postmodern Education and the Politics of Backlash by Henry A. Giroux, Series Editor's IntroductionForeword by Jean-François LyotardAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lyotard, Education, and the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersThe Loss of Innocence: Lyotard, Foucault, and the Challenge of Postmodern Education by William BainLegitimation Problems: Knowledge and Education in the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersLyotard and Rorty on the Role of the Professor by A.T. NuyenFrom Pragmatism to the Differend by J.M. FritzmanPostmodern Feminisms by Carol NicholsonCritical Pedagogy and the Pragmatics of Justice by Peter McLarenLyotard, Postmodernity, and Education: A Critical Evaluation by John HinksonIs Education at the End of a Sovereign Story or at the Beginning of Another? Cultural Political Possibilities and Lyotard by Barry KanpolPedagogy and Apedagogy: Lyotard and Foucault at Vincennes by James MarshallFrom Emancipation to Obligation: Sketch for a Heteronomous Politics of Education by Bill ReadingsIndex

MICHAEL PETERS is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests are in the areas of postmodernism and poststructuralism. He has edited Performance and Accountability (1990) and published more than 60 journal articles and numerous chapters in edited volumes on educational policy and philosophy.

• Postmodern Education and the Politics of Backlash by Henry A. Giroux, Series Editor's IntroductionForeword by Jean-François LyotardAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lyotard, Education, and the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersThe Loss of Innocence: Lyotard, Foucault, and the Challenge of Postmodern Education by William BainLegitimation Problems: Knowledge and Education in the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersLyotard and Rorty on the Role of the Professor by A.T. NuyenFrom Pragmatism to the Differend by J.M. FritzmanPostmodern Feminisms by Carol NicholsonCritical Pedagogy and the Pragmatics of Justice by Peter McLarenLyotard, Postmodernity, and Education: A Critical Evaluation by John HinksonIs Education at the End of a Sovereign Story or at the Beginning of Another? Cultural Political Possibilities and Lyotard by Barry KanpolPedagogy and Apedagogy: Lyotard and Foucault at Vincennes by James MarshallFrom Emancipation to Obligation: Sketch for a Heteronomous Politics of Education by Bill ReadingsIndex

MICHAEL PETERS is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests are in the areas of postmodernism and poststructuralism. He has edited Performance and Accountability (1990) and published more than 60 journal articles and numerous chapters in edited volumes on educational policy and philosophy.

• Postmodern Education and the Politics of Backlash by Henry A. Giroux, Series Editor's IntroductionForeword by Jean-François LyotardAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lyotard, Education, and the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersThe Loss of Innocence: Lyotard, Foucault, and the Challenge of Postmodern Education by William BainLegitimation Problems: Knowledge and Education in the Postmodern Condition by Michael PetersLyotard and Rorty on the Role of the Professor by A.T. NuyenFrom Pragmatism to the Differend by J.M. FritzmanPostmodern Feminisms by Carol NicholsonCritical Pedagogy and the Pragmatics of Justice by Peter McLarenLyotard, Postmodernity, and Education: A Critical Evaluation by John HinksonIs Education at the End of a Sovereign Story or at the Beginning of Another? Cultural Political Possibilities and Lyotard by Barry KanpolPedagogy and Apedagogy: Lyotard and Foucault at Vincennes by James MarshallFrom Emancipation to Obligation: Sketch for a Heteronomous Politics of Education by Bill ReadingsIndex