SCHOOL PARADIGM IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM

Abstract

Modernism is an age which pulled away teaching and learning from their private sphere and significantly contributed to their institutionalization. The world of modernism, which is based on the designation o f work, trains and educates according to the plans and objectives, and prepares and disciplines for work and the cultural ways o f behavior in a favorable form and by the hand o f trained and loyal personnel. Introducing didactics into the schools has been characterized by the raise o f rationalization, objectivizing the norms and values, and legally regulating the personal conditionality. At the same time, it is also characterized with the individualization, e.g. that the education identifies a subject, which is cultivated at the same time, which means integrated in the constellation o f circumstances o f a modern culture. Postmodernism agitated the hope into the necessary and growing potential o f advancement according to the models and whishes o f modernism. Time has changed and teaching and learning today are in the sign o f necessary reflection about those changes, what has been analyzed in the paper. Postmodernism means neither the end o f modernism, nor the paradisiacal situation. Social situation, in which people live in the contemporary world, has been has been distinguished with the ambivalent phenomena o f the postmodernism, which are manifested in contradictoriness that becomes more and more uncontrolled and in the disruption between 'I want' and ' I should".