Peter's positions: a diffractive analysis of authority in a year one classroom
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Peter's positions: a diffractive analysis of authority in a year one classroom. / Leuschner, Hannes.
In: Ethnography and Education, Vol. 16, No. 4, 02.10.2021, p. 475-490.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Peter's positions: a diffractive analysis of authority in a year one classroom
AU - Leuschner, Hannes
PY - 2021/10/2
Y1 - 2021/10/2
N2 - This article presents an ethnography of the entanglement of space, learning and teaching bodies and pedagogical authority in a primary school in Germany. We focus on the spatial placement of a boy diagnosed with ‘special needs’. Inspired by Carol Taylor’s analysis of a male teacher’s authority at a college. we describe the boy’s changeable seating position first with de Certeau’s spatial understanding of power relations and then with Barad’s agential realism. By conducting this ‘diffractive’ analysis of his performances, we can show how he is subjected to the teacher’s authority and has a remarkable authoritative power himself at the same time. Finally, by focussing on the relationship between the researcher and the boy, we discuss the process of data gathering as it is entangled with the interpretation of data.
AB - This article presents an ethnography of the entanglement of space, learning and teaching bodies and pedagogical authority in a primary school in Germany. We focus on the spatial placement of a boy diagnosed with ‘special needs’. Inspired by Carol Taylor’s analysis of a male teacher’s authority at a college. we describe the boy’s changeable seating position first with de Certeau’s spatial understanding of power relations and then with Barad’s agential realism. By conducting this ‘diffractive’ analysis of his performances, we can show how he is subjected to the teacher’s authority and has a remarkable authoritative power himself at the same time. Finally, by focussing on the relationship between the researcher and the boy, we discuss the process of data gathering as it is entangled with the interpretation of data.
KW - Agential realism
KW - bodies and space
KW - diffractive approach
KW - posthuman performativity
KW - pedagogical authority
KW - Educational science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111662028&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17457823.2021.1952638
DO - 10.1080/17457823.2021.1952638
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 16
SP - 475
EP - 490
JO - Ethnography and Education
JF - Ethnography and Education
SN - 1745-7823
IS - 4
ER -