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

Author(s): Antti Saari
Subject(s): Education, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Evaluation research, Ontology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: educational research; discourse analysis; history of the human sciences; philosophy of the human sciences;

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-151
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English