ERIC Number: EJ1091793
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Mar
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1463-9491
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A Phaedrus Baroque Art of Maintenance or Constant Fabulating Qualia Becoming Quality
Reinertsen, Anne Beate
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, v17 n1 p112-123 Mar 2016
This article is crafted through three scenes, through which the author tries to imagine quality as something that is third space, semiotic, plasticity, eternal, and simultaneously something solid and obviously good here and now, through a Spinozian/Deluzian/Braitottian joy/you/me. The author rhizomatically tries to lay everything out on a plane of exteriority--on a single page, the same sheet: lived events, historical determinations, theories, philosophies, stories, concepts, individuals, groups, social formations, and her desires. Scene One is from Plato's dialogue Phaedrus and is about censuring. Scene Two is from Robert M Pirsig's story "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values." The third scene (and all scenes) is a DeleuzoGuattarian fabulation, writing qualia becoming quality and hopefully transgressing universal quality measuring projects that are addressing specific professionals and/or preschools or child/ren/hoods, where early child/hood is ultimately seen as a matrix of becoming and early childhood education centres as translocal places preparing for future contingent events. The author tries to provide a chance to see better the airy void around us -- to see beneath the stucco surface of the purely phenomenal, insubstantial character of the everyday world -- so as to enjoy fleeting quality life all the more, at least for a moment. The author is initiating new discourses on childhood -- ultimately, children's political subject formations.
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Semiotics, Social Change, History, Philosophy, Novels, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Child Care Centers, Futures (of Society), Quality of Life, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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