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Freeing Ourselves From Objectivity: Managing Subjectivity or Turning Toward a Participatory Mode of Consciousness?

York University, Faculty of Education, Ross S. 585, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. She specializes in foundations of qualitative research and methodology, and special education

The call by educational researchers for the methodological management of the self is placed within a discussion on modes of consciousness. The management of both subjectivity and objectivity are seen as sharing the same alienated mode of consciousness that believes in the possibility of a regulated distance between self and other. Drawing from interdisciplinary writings, I explore a participatory mode of consciousness, which involves a somatic, nonverbal quality of attention that necessitates letting go of the focus on self. The recognition of kinship and therefore of ethics is at the core of a participatory mode of consciousness. I further note relations to educational research and questions to be raised if a participatory mode of consciousness is to be fostered.

Educational Researcher, Vol. 23, No. 3, 15-22 (1994)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X023003015


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