Journal article
Shameful interest in educational research
Critical studies in education, Vol.61(4), pp.416-432
07/08/2020
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Abstract
This article considers ontological conceptualizations of shame-interest as experienced in educational research. Shame has frequently been reported in research as a property of the autonomous individual: the shame of the participant to share with the researcher, and the shame of the researcher to reflexively eliminate. Shame-interest is re-theorized here as a generative research event, as intra-action, as one simultaneous movement in the ongoing present. We attempt an ethical shift from a reflexive stance to fluxing movements of response-ability and co-consequence in order to encourage socially responsive educational research, informed through the conceptual resources of psychologist Silvan Tomkins, and feminist philosopher and physicist Karen Barad. Theory is threaded through a series of personal research vignettes to illustrate our thinking through ways shame-interest materialized within research events. Shame is re/conceptualized as a contestable composite feeling entangled with interest that allows an alternate non-reductive and ethical approach to educational research. We amplify our researcher responsibility, and our shame, by placing ourselves as entangled with the research 'problem' under investigation.
Details
- Title
- Shameful interest in educational research
- Creators
- Eve Mayes - Deakin UniversityMelissa Joy Wolfe - Monash University
- Publication Details
- Critical studies in education, Vol.61(4), pp.416-432
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012997791102368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article