Faculty Publications
Publication Date
2013
Disciplines
Education | Educational Methods | Elementary Education and Teaching
Abstract
Using feminist relational materialism as a theoretical map, this paper seeks to reimage traditional case study methodology through the use of diffractive methodology. Reading and writing data diffractively is to refuse to privilege teacher and student talk and to instead study how material-discursive practices intra-act as phenomenon. To do this, we developed question-sets based upon Barad’s (2007) work to interrupt our habits of thinking in regard to a teacher-student writing conference. These question sets provoke our thinking with data from fourth grade teacher-student writing conferences. We play with diffractive methodology highlighting one teacher-student writing conference as intra-activity. Experiencing the teacher-student writing conference again (and again) the question-sets diffract a response and a response diffracts the question-sets, calling us to a continuous becoming, an ethical consideration of how our research and teaching practices matter. We are left wondering if there is a methodology to search for or if methodology is an invitation to an ongoing performance, to join a dance of-the-world, in a constant making and re-making and wondering of what might be?
Document Type
Published Version
Rights
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Original Citation
Mindy Legard Larson & Donna Kalmbach Phillips
Searching for methodology: feminist relational materialism and the teacher-student writing conference.
Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 2013, volume 4, issue 1, pages 17-34
https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/684
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Larson, Mindy Legard and Phillips, Donna Kalmbach, "Searching for Methodology: Feminist Relational Materialism and the Teacher-Student Writing Conference" (2013). Faculty Publications. Published Version. Submission 9.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/educfac_pubs/9
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