ABSTRACT

This article offers an insight into the process and potential of Deleuze-inspired action research. It draws on a classroom action research (CAR) project that critically reconceptualises practices of reflective writing in teacher education, including the widespread use of the ‘professional learning journal’ as a resource to facilitate reflection on practice. Students following a teacher education programme in England took part in an innovative mode of engagement with texts, including their learning journals, drawing on the Deleuzo-Guattarian notion of the text as an agent that acts outside of itself. The process was called ‘implicated reading’. An example of a teaching and learning intervention, in the form of a seminar transcript, is offered as an illustration of how Deleuzian theory and philosophy can inspire and shape innovations in practice. The transcript also serves as an opportunity to reimagine the ways in which data and data analysis are conceptualised and practiced in action research (AR) projects. Data is (re)conceptualised as agentic, rather than inert or indifferent. Synthesis is privileged over analysis so that the transcript acts as a provocation to rethink the relation between theory and data, asking what is made possible when these are ‘plugged into’ one another to raise questions that otherwise would have remained unthought. Ultimately, the article offers a worked example of what happens when action researchers take up the challenge of working and thinking within a Deleuzian ontology that seeks to maintain the plurality and potentialities of AR in practice.

摘要

本文提供了对德勒兹启发的行动研究的过程和潜力的洞察。它借鉴了一个课堂行动研究 (CAR) 项目，该项目批判性地重新概念化了教师教育中反思性写作的实践，包括广泛使用“专业学习日志”作为促进反思实践的资源。在英格兰参加教师教育计划的学生参与了一种创新的文本参与模式，包括他们的学习日志，借鉴了德勒佐-瓜塔利亚关于文本作为在自身之外起作用的代理的概念。这个过程被称为“牵连阅读”。以研讨会成绩单的形式提供了一个教学干预的例子，以说明德勒兹的理论和哲学如何在实践中激发和塑造创新。成绩单还提供了一个机会，可以重新构想数据和数据分析在行动研究 (AR) 项目中的概念化和实践方式。数据被（重新）概念化为代理，而不是惰性或无关紧要。综合优先于分析，因此抄本充当了重新思考理论与数据之间关系的挑衅，询问当它们相互“插入”以提出否则会一直未被考虑的问题时，什么是可能的。最后，本文提供了一个工作示例，说明当行动研究人员接受在德勒兹本体中工作和思考的挑战时会发生什么，该本体试图在实践中保持 AR 的多样性和潜力。