For goodness sake! Postlogographically de-(dis)positioning education research
conference contribution
posted on 2004-01-01, 00:00authored byWarren Sellers
How are education researchers and their research now positioned? Where are education research and researchers now positioned in the public/private debate? What is the position of practitioner research in these circumstances? My paper introduces 'post logography' as a researching trope for perturbing structuralist analytic methods towards interpreting post structuralising complexities that challenge the 'positioning' of education/research/researchers.
I discuss interpreting researching with and in (with-in) educating as intertwining ways, for turning the analytical objectivity that 'positions' subjective 'facts' as essentialised 'goods', towards exploring generative states of 'goodness'.
Education and its research are typically cast as separate constructs (like teaching and outcomes) for defining the subjectification of educational objects as valuable 'goods' - especially those with private economic value.
I argue that researched educational 'goods' are mostly teaching and outcomes focussed, and mainly privately positioned, whereas researching with-in educating for 'goodness' concerns a public disposition of exploring-learning-generativity for social knowing-acting.
I am theorising that through postlogographically de-positioning the predominance of 'facts' as private 'goods', and thereby recognising interpretive states concerning and generating 'goodness', the reductive polarisation of education/research, public/private, theorist/practitioner turns towards understanding complex continua for exploring-learning-generativity, which introduce new horizons of significance for social knowing-acting.
History
Event
Australian Association for Research in Education. Conference (2004 : Melbourne, Vic.)
Pagination
1 - 16
Publisher
Australian Association for Research in Education
Location
Melbourne, Victoria
Place of publication
Melbourne, Vic.
Start date
2004-11-28
End date
2004-12-02
ISSN
1324-9339
Language
eng
Publication classification
E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed
Copyright notice
2004, AARE
Editor/Contributor(s)
P Jeffery
Title of proceedings
AARE 2004 : Doing the public good : positioning educational research ; AARE 2004 International Education Research conference proceedings