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Moving beyond representational pasts and reducible futures?When university ethics policies and postqualitative research projects collide.This paper is an experimentation entangling university ethics policies and postqualitative research. It asks the audience to play within the problematic, to consider ‘what next’ in an example from my PhD research project focusing on England’s Early Years Foundations Stage (EYFS) statutory framework. The paper considers the project’s origins as a research-creation using erasure poetry techniques to call forth a people to come: a project influenced by the work of M. NourbeSe Philip and Tracey K. Smith; that introduces Hazel, a young participant, who, beyond informing a “complexity of realities as they manifest” living as “the intensities that insist on those realities,” does not exist; in the realising of the problem concerning ‘what next’.For in accordance with university ethics policy, Hazel is an “input [that] does not match the data.” An unexpected, unknown detour without a prior clearance. For the postqualitative research project Hazel is the possibility of something different occurring. An event through which a differing ethics must materialise. And in the spaces in between, Hazel’s non-existence disturbs, challenges and grows.In unfolding a problematisation of educational normativity – statutory and institutional – the paper considers the subjectivity of Hazel, their reducible future determined by our representational past, as an assimilation of standards of normality imagined by a forcibly displaced Syrian child in order to fit a national culture of education as a story of colonisation fit for our time.ReferencesDeleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.Department of Education. Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage. London: The Stationary Office. Accessed 6 May 2024.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2.Ferreira da Silva, Denise. Introduction to All Incomplete by Stephano Harney and Fred Moten, 5-11. Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2021. Lorraine, Tamsin. Deleuze and Guattari’s Immanent Ethics: Theory, Subjectivity and Duration. New York: SUNY, 2012.Philip, M. NourbeSe. Zong! Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.Smith, Tracey K. Declaration. The New Yorker. 2017. Accessed on 6 May 2024. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/declaration.

Publication Date

2024-05-23

Event

Posthuman Decolonising Dialogues

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postqualitative research, doctoral research, ethics, experimental methodologies, early childhood education, interdisciplinary educational research, research methodology, theory and philosophy

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