A schizoanalytic exploration of the potential of fabulation for the creation of new social collectivities in pre-service teacher education. (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kruger, Frans; Le Roux, Adré
• Is Part Of: Pedagogy, culture & society. Volume 28:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 241
• Page End: 259
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Fabulation -- diffraction -- pedagogy -- experimentation -- schizoanalysis -- subject groups -- subjected groups; Education -- Curricula -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 370
• DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2019.1629994
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-1366

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article draws on Felix Guattari's proposition of subject and subjected groups to explore the interplay between individual and group subjectivity within the higher education context in South Africa. The exploration is specifically orientated towards considering the pedagogical possibilities of the concept of fabulation. Schizoanalysis is employed to map how six first-year pre-service teachers collectively envisioned a shared future. As a result of the mapping, diffraction is proposed as a pedagogical practice to create the conditions for fabulation to occur. It is argued that the act of fabulation enables pedagogy to be positioned as a practice of resistance to assumed orthodox truths. In addition, fabulation also orientates pedagogy as a practice of experimentation toward the creation of new social collectivities.