Top Ten+ List

Abstract

This article presents a "top ten+ list" of lessons learned from the ontological turn. Across various terms and insistences, the article surveys theories of social change, the subject and agency, the canons constructed, the methodologies materialized, the "more and other than reflexivity" researcher subjectivity endorsed, and the edges of both policy analysis and quantitative research that already instantiate such lessons. It concludes with a meditation on how to think this latest turn within something other than a temporality of successor regimes, end-isms, and apocalyptic breaks.

Dialogic theorising of Emirati women’s technology enhanced learning in the United Arab Emirates

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Anti-Colonial Book Clubs

“…Put another way, subjectivities "mediate and are mediated by the texts they read, write, and talk about" (Moje & Luke, 2009, p. 416). As the women connected to and related to the fiction, they were drawing on their past from their present contexts and positionalities (Sumara, 1996), which points to the ways in which there is no truth or reality, but constructions of experiences based on the unstable and fluid language available (Lather, 2016).…”

Postkvalitatiivisia liikahduksia tekstin ja äänen välillä

“…2 Syy sille, että litteroinnin kulttuurihistoriallisista muodoista äänellisyyttä vain vähän huomioonottava litterointitapa vakiintui tutkimuskäytännöksi, voi liittyä juuri tekstikeskeisyyteen, joka vahvistui entisestään laadullisessa tutkimuksessa sosiaalisen konstruktionismin myötä (ks. Fox 2016, 67;Lather ja St. Pierre 2013;Lather 2016;St. Pierre, Jackson ja Mazzei 2016).…”