Wandering along the Moebius strip: Radical reflexivity in the archaeology of educational research

• Authors: Antti Saari

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Wandering along the Moebius strip: Radical reflexivity in the archaeology of educational research

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Writing qualitative research texts often involves the acknowledgement of the researcher being imbued in the systems of meaning that he or she is studying. This provides a background for incitement to reflexivity, i.e. how one’s own life history and broader cultural context is etched in epistemological and ontological assumptions about the object. This article studies the reflexive style of writing in Michel Foucault’s archaeology of the human sciences, which constantly problematises its own assumptions about studying discourses. His style is described with the analogy of a Moebius strip, highlighting the way the ‘outside’ history of the human sciences turns into the ‘inside’ conditions of possibility for analysing discursive formations in the history of educational research.

EN

Writing qualitative research texts often involves the acknowledgement of the researcher being imbued in the systems of meaning that he or she is studying. This provides a background for incitement to reflexivity, i.e. how one’s own life history and broader cultural context is etched in epistemological and ontological assumptions about the object. This article studies the reflexive style of writing in Michel Foucault’s archaeology of the human sciences, which constantly problematises its own assumptions about studying discourses. His style is described with the analogy of a Moebius strip, highlighting the way the ‘outside’ history of the human sciencesturns into the ‘inside’ conditions of possibility for analysing discursive formations in the history of educational research.

Keywords

PL

educational research; discourse analysis; history of the human sciences; philosophy of the human sciences

EN

educational research; discourse analysis; history of the human sciences; philosophy of the human sciences; educational research; discourse analysis; history of the human sciences; philosophy of the human sciences

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 129-151

Dates

published

2019-02-19

Contributors

author

Antti Saari

• University of Tampere

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/kse.2017.12.6.