Slabbert, Johannes A.Hattingh, AnnemarieVan Loggerenberg-Hattingh, Annemarie2008-05-052008-05-052006Slabbert, JA & Hattingh, A 2006, 'Where is the post-modern truth we have lost in reductionist knowledge?' A curriculum’s epitaph', Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 701-718. [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/00220272.html]0022-027210.1080/00220270600608023http://hdl.handle.net/2263/5115This essay suggests a way for creating a curriculum for the future amidst the challenges of post-modern uncertainty. Curriculum discourse in the past has been dominated by widely accepted key questions, which produce and maintain curricula that are essentially fragmented and reductionistic, and directly opposed to the essential demands of the holistic nature of life. The essay proposes a contemporary curriculum philosophy that is fundamentally heuristic, with a radically eclectic, contingent character.3680377 bytesapplication/pdfenTaylor & FrancisAuthentic learningHolistic educationOpen educationPost-modern curriculumStudent-centred approachesHolistic educationOpen plan schoolsPostprint Article