LEADER 03893nam 22006855 450 001 9910484314003321 005 20220120025153.0 010 $a9789462096417 010 $a9462096414 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-6209-641-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000113437 035 $a(EBL)1973896 035 $a(OCoLC)884592164 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001245091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11670809 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001245091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11322141 035 $a(PQKB)11464128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3034967 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-6209-641-7 035 $a(OCoLC)879855728 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789462096417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1973896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1973896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10983202 035 $a(PPN)178781541 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000113437 100 $a20140505d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNaming the Unnamable $eResearching Identities through Creative Writing /$fby Tom Dobson 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aRotterdam :$cSensePublishers :$cImprint: SensePublishers,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 225 1 $aBold Visions in Educational Research 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9789462096400 311 08$a9462096406 311 08$a9789462096394 311 08$a9462096392 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- List of Characters -- A Journey -- The Long Road Home -- You?s Analysis -- PhD Student?s Analysis -- The End of Something -- List of References -- List of Academic References -- List of Literary References. 330 $aReflecting upon his own prior experiences as Writer, PhD Student embarks on an ethnographic research project which seeks to explain the relationship between Boys? creative writing and identity. A view of identity as performance is adopted, a main cast of year 6 Boys is assembled, and the stage of the year 6 primary classroom and the secondary school is set. Undertaking participant observation, PhD Student sends his reflections as emails to PhD Supervisor but as their dialogue takes hold, questions relating to the problematic nature of research and representation proliferate. Which identity is PhD Student performing in the classroom: himself, Mr Dobson, Writer or Tom? Is self-reflexivity enough? To what extent can the Boys? identities ever be known? Rather than silencing these problems, PhD Student looks for a form of writing which lays bare the messiness of research. He rejects the linearity of the traditional form and writes his thesis as a self-conscious fiction: a dialogue on a train between himself, a post/structuralist academic, and You, a humanist non-academic. As PhD Student?s data is analysed, critiqued and deconstructed from both essentialist and interpretivist perspectives, the impossibility of objective representation is explored. Within its own frame of reference, PhD Student?s analysis of the Boys? writing offers a theoretical framework for thinking about creative writing in terms of identity and agency. However, the thesis-script itself is primarily a methodological critique: one that shows that no matter what is written on pages, between the words, between the letters, there will always be the Unnamable. 410 0$aBold Visions in Educational Research 606 $aEducation 606 $aEducation 615 0$aEducation. 615 14$aEducation. 676 $a370 676 $a808 700 $aDobson$b Tom$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01229050 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484314003321 996 $aNaming the Unnamable$92853127 997 $aUNINA