![[PDF]](/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
In responding to Jonathan Silin's article ‘At a Loss: Scared and Excited’, the author takes up his invitation to articulate a relationship between the personal and the professional, and contemplates the autobiographical as more than a mode of recounting one's own experience. In so doing he foregrounds possibilities for working with an autobiographical account of experience as both a self-reflexive research method and a site for learning about oneself and others. The author situates autobiography as a generative space in and from which one might theorise the self, with the express purpose of simultaneously understanding something of the other. He uses a personal experience of loss as an intellectual resource in order to theorise: the formation of the self in and over time and space; the normative practices through which selves and their experience are made intelligible and recognisable; the relational character of recognition; and the possibilities of narrative for developing an ethic of solicitude and care. In thinking what this theorising might mean for early childhood education he gives an account of the ontological, epistemological and pedagogical implications of loss.
References
| Barthes, R. (1994) The Pleasure of the Text. Oxford: Blackwell. Google Scholar | |
| Butler, J. (2005) Giving an Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823225033.001.0001 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
| Caruth, C. (1995) Trauma: Explorations in memory. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Google Scholar | |
| Derrida, J. (2001) A Certain ‘Madness’ Must Watch over Thinking: Interview with Francois Ewald, in Biesta, G. & Eghea-Kuehne, D. (Eds) Derrida and Education. London: Routledge. Google Scholar | |
| Foucault, M. (1988) The Political Technology of Individuals, in Martin, L.H., Gutman, H. & Hutton, P.H. (Eds) Technologies of the Self: A seminar with Michel Foucault. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Google Scholar | |
| Halberstam, J. (2005) In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender bodies, subcultural lives. New York: New York University Press. Google Scholar | |
| Hall, G. & Wortham, S. (1997) Rethinking Authority: Interview with Homi K. Bhaba, Angelaki, 2(2), 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697259708571932 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
| LaCapra, D. (2004) History in Transit: Experience, identity, critical theory. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Google Scholar | |
| Lather, P. (2007) Getting Lost: Feminist efforts toward a double(d) science. Albany: State University of New York Press. Google Scholar | |
| Mol, A. (2006) Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions, in Law, J. & Hassard, J. (Eds) Actor Network Theory and After. Oxford: Blackwell. Google Scholar | |
| Nespor, J. (1997) Tangled up in School: Politics, space, bodies, and signs in the educational process. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Google Scholar | |
| Ricoeur, P. (1988) Time and Narrative Volume 3, trans. Blamey, Kathleen & Pellaur, David . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226713533.001.0001 Google Scholar | |
| Ricoeur, P. (1994) Oneself as Another, trans. Blamey, K. . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar | |
| Silin, J. (2013) At a Loss: Scared and excited, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 14(1), 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2013.14.1.16 Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
| Venn, C. (2002) Refiguring Subjectivity after Modernity, in Walkerdine, V. (Ed.) Challenging Subjects: Critical psychology for a new Millennium. New York: Palgrave. Google Scholar |
