When I was sixteen I wanted a car desperately; it was all my male friends ever talked about: I felt excluded. I feel the same about postmodernism. At least having a car is useful. The purpose of this article is to stop educational theorists wasting valuable time and energy. I can find very little of any use in postmodernism and even thathas been said before in a different form. As this is a review of four edited collections, of enormous difference in topic and scope, and since so many people have been asking for a definition of postmodernism, I shall organise this essay by firstly providing a brief background. Then, from a review of my reading of postmodern texts, I shall provide a list of definitions and what characteristics these involve.

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