Section archive - Research Methods

The author is thinking with Deleuze's ethical practice of 'being on the lookout' for encounters with the cracks. The author works with Deleuze and Guattari, Deleuze and Foucault in a geological and genealogical mode of inquiry to examine the preoccupation over whether addiction is a disease or a moral failing.

In this article, the author seeks to represent a concept which is described by Deleuze and Guattari as movement that is simultaneous, asymmetrical, instantaneous, unfinalized, zig-zag. This movement is Deleuze and Guattari's concept of difference, that which they name becoming. To put this concept of becoming to work, the author uses three texts. One of the texts is a short excerpt from the author's fieldnotes taken during her ethnographic research on the subject formation of adolescent girls. Deleuze and Guattari's concept of becoming allows the author to explore Jesse's unique difference, to privilege her specificity.

The current essay performs a number of the authors' collaborative responses to thinking (differently) with Deleuze in educational philosophy and curriculum inquiry. By exploring their work with Deleuzean conceptual creations in mind, the authors seek to move readers beyond Deleuzo-Guattarian select metaphors. The authors intend these performances to give a sense of not only the generativity that Deleuzo-Guattarian reading∼thinking has opened to them but also the affirmation such performances bestow for thinking (differently) in educational philosophy and curriculum inquiry.

The current article addresses the use of video in classroom research. In failing to interfere with the everyday banality of the normal child, research colludes with the production of exclusion, disadvantage and a stunted set of possible futures for children. Written by four ethnographers of early childhood who have themselves (mis)used video cameras in classrooms, the article describes an experimental video film that attempts to intervene in the repetitious production of the banal.