ERIC Number: EJ1392655
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
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What if Reflexivity and Diffraction Intra-Act?
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v36 n6 p1109-1122 2023
Diffraction has emerged as a concept and methodology through opposing reflexivity. In this paper, I argue that reflexivity and diffraction are not external to each other. In contrast, I propose that they blur into each other and so we do not find ourselves using pure reflexivity or diffraction. Furthermore, I contend that categorically distinguishing reflexivity and diffraction can generate practices of exclusion and the unwitting reproduction of what we would like to avoid. Through letting reflexivity and diffraction intra-act, I develop my notion of a diffracted reflexivity. A reflexivity that acknowledges that in reflecting about ourselves we are not representing something but producing something; specifically, we are relating to ourselves in ways that are relationally, culturally and materially enabled, continuously producing ourselves and the world in that process of relating. Consequently, I propose to meta-reflexively focus the attention on the ways of relating that we enact and what they produce.
Descriptors: Reflection, Epistemology, Classification, Interaction, Theories, Meta Analysis, Self Concept
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