Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon

present in what happens, but at the same time is transformed within the local discussions.
If one wants to speak about change or innovation of education, it is there in the
local interactions of many people.
Question 1: Am I able to make plausible the emergence of the main topics?
It may be clear how against the background of my taken for granted assumptions ‘performativity’,
‘time for interruption’ and ‘bricoleur’ emerged as a consequence of the
analytical and reflexive work on the narratives. I could say that the three subjects
emerged as a subtext in and due to the interactions of the many people involved, but
only became visible due to the reflexive efforts.
Question 2: Which in-depth reflections are enabled regarding advisory work?
With regard to my advisory work in the UAS I conclude that the in-depth reflections
have brought an awareness about the needed presence of a bricoleur with a touch of
irony. Departing from being an adviser to the board and speculating about a corporate
jestership, my research clarified that in times where many different, sometimes contradictory
and sometimes firm demands are made, an ironic bricoleur appears to be of
help.
Recapitulating, still three questions remain to be answered. It remains a question
whether my research will resonate with the readers, whether I fulfilled my ethical
responsibilities as a researcher and what the contributions of my research to the field
of OMS may be. Resonance and ethical matters will be the subjects of the next paragraph,
the contributions to the field of OMS will be discussed thereafter.
7.6 About the rigorousness of my research
“We are in a new age where messy, uncertain, multivoiced texts, cultural criticism, and
new experimental works will become more common, as will more reflexive forms of
fieldwork, analysis, and intertextual interpretation.” (Denzin and Lincoln, 1994: 26). A
complex responsive process-approach is one of the new ways of experimental fieldwork.
It is not experimental as a methodological design, but experimental compared
with mainstream ways of doing research. It is fieldwork because a complex responsive
process-approach departs from experiences from the researcher himself and its
research is close to what evolves in daily life.
Whatever the position within the many experimental new ways of doing research,
researchers working from a complex responsive process-perspective are held to take
responsibility for the quality of their research. At the end of chapter 2 I formulated five
criteria for the quality of research from a complex responsive process perspective.
Taking up the thread of these criteria I will reflect shortly upon my research.
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