The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><em>This paper re-visits the problem of how we re-conceptualize human subjects within poststructuralist researc...

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Main Author: Bronwyn Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oslo University College 2010-06-01
Series:Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/171
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description <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><em>This paper re-visits the problem of how we re-conceptualize human subjects within poststructuralist research. The turn to poststructuralist theory to inform research in the social sciences is complicated by the difficulty in thinking through what it means to put the <del>subject</del> under erasure. Drawing on a study in a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool in Sweden, and a study of neoliberalism's impact on academic work, this paper opens up thought about poststructuralism's <del>subject</del>. It argues that agency is the province of that <del>subject</del>.</em></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>
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The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
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title The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
title_full The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
title_fullStr The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
title_full_unstemmed The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
title_short The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency
title_sort implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject the problem of agency
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