Researching Early Schooling: Poststructural practices and academic writing in an ethnography.

Locating oneself as a poststructuralist not only emphasies readings of texts, but generates data comparable with this location. This article considers some possibilities in researching everyday happening at primary school. Reading and producing discourages, rather than texts only , involves bringing into play our own subjective understanding. Writing differently then a methodology for the analysis of what we have recorded of what we have recorded as research data. For the study of sites and events one, one possibility is for deconstructions to follow a form of ethnography. However with psotstructural theories and their related academic practices, the research choices are different. An effect of this difference is that the timmings and resolution of gathering, presenting and analysing data are dislocated. These dislocations may be read as an enactment of a radical philosophy. They may also be read as a puzzle to be resisted but which is nevertheless constructed to match today's cultural shift and to challenge the nature of researching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]