This statement begins the report recently generated for the state of New York by a task force commissioned to revise their history curriculum. Statements like these are manifestations of postmodernism as it impacts public education. A key word to learn when trying to understand postmodern education is constructivism .
Constructivism is the main underlying learning theory in postmodern education.
Knowledge is not discovered as modernists would claim. Reality is a story. Nobody's version of reality can claim to have more objective authority because all versions are merely human creations. No, we're not kidding. If no one's knowledge is necessarily true, everything changes.