Neither of the air, nor of the earth but a creature somewhere between: the researcher as traveller between worlds
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Chapter Title | Neither of the air, nor of the earth but a creature somewhere between: the researcher as traveller between worlds |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
Book Title | Mainstreams, margins and the spaces in-between: new possibilities for education research |
Authors | |
Author | Jones, Janice K. |
Editors | Trimmer, Karen, Black, Alison L. and Riddle, Stewart |
Page Range | 81-93 |
Series | Routledge Research in Education |
Chapter Number | 6 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781138021389 |
9781315777818 | |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315777818-12/neither-air-earth-creature-somewhere-researcher-traveller-worlds-janice-jones |
Abstract | In this story of places, spaces and power I adopt the persona of the bat as storyteller, bringing together narratives of my experience as an educator of pre-service teachers, and from my three years’ participatory research within a Reggio-informed and community-managed primary school. The bat’s story becomes a fable for neo-liberal times as the forced closure of the alternative school and university restructures reflect increasing government controls of educational systems in Australia and globally. In and between these seemingly contradictory epistemologies and ontologies I re-interpret the bat’s hybridity and experience of darkness as a disruptive and generative third space for re-thinking education. |
Keywords | alternative education, teacher identity, researcher identity, research, boundaries, borders, unschooling, home schooling, third space, border theory, Aesop’s fables, narrative research, participatory research |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390304. Primary education |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
University of the Sunshine Coast | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2vz1/neither-of-the-air-nor-of-the-earth-but-a-creature-somewhere-between-the-researcher-as-traveller-between-worlds
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