Shameful interest in educational research |
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| Authors: | Eve Mayes Melissa Joy Wolfe |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Education, Deakin University , Geelong, Victoria, Australia Eve.mayes@deakin.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-2489;3. Faculty of Education, Monash University , Clayton, Victoria, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-9942 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT This article considers ontological conceptualizations of shame-interest as experienced in educational research. Shame has frequently been reported in research as a property of the autonomous individual: the shame of the participant to share with the researcher, and the shame of the researcher to reflexively eliminate. Shame-interest is re-theorized here as a generative research event, as intra-action, as one simultaneous movement in the ongoing present. We attempt an ethical shift from a reflexive stance to fluxing movements of response-ability and co-consequence in order to encourage socially responsive educational research, informed through the conceptual resources of psychologist Silvan Tomkins, and feminist philosopher and physicist Karen Barad. Theory is threaded through a series of personal research vignettes to illustrate our thinking through ways shame-interest materialized within research events. Shame is re/conceptualized as a contestable composite feeling entangled with interest that allows an alternate non-reductive and ethical approach to educational research. We amplify our researcher responsibility, and our shame, by placing ourselves as entangled with the research ‘problem’ under investigation. |
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| Keywords: | Affect interest Karen Barad research ethics response-ability shame |
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-2489;3. Faculty of Education, Monash University , Clayton, Victoria, Australia