The Analysis and Criticism of Post- modernism's Look at Educating the Values

"Post-modernism" which was emerged in the secular context of West is characterized by emphasis on relativism and pluralism, negation of any certain belief and absolute value, contradiction with essentialism, belief in man's socially made identity, rejection of basing values on genetic realities, and rejection of necessary effects of acts on man's destiny. In terms of educational aims, it emphasizes on institutionalization of pluralism and strengthening the spirit of self-organization in learners; and in terms of educational principles, it emphasizes on avoiding dogmatism, struggle against systematization, and insistence on personal freedoms. In educational methods, it emphasizes on the learner-oriented discourse, serious attention to marginal groups, and negation of modeling.In spite of its advantages including the struggle against "globalization" and "scientism", and emphasis on "dynamism", this school has many weaknesses. The grave disadvantages are: intellectual dissociation, clear contradiction in thought, and inattention to realities, factual knowledge and fixes and natural values.