Abstract

CABRERA HERNANDEZ, Dulce María. The Subject in the Plot: Biography and Post-foundational Enclave Power. RMIE [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.63, pp.1195-1220. ISSN 1405-6666.

How can we research our practices as educational researchers from a post-foundational perspective? How can we build tools of intellection that explain the historical and biographical conditions of the individual who performs research in the educational field? This paper centers on the subject of a biography as a discursive/textual and political subject from a post-foundational perspective. The conceptualization turns to the categories of discourse (Laclau) and text (Derrida) as a theoretical enclave, and based on current research on the academic trajectories of educational researchers, four dimensions of analysis are developed: collective experience, academic professionalization, institutional life, and biographical educational experience. The purpose is to show some examples of the emergence of the subject of biographies.

Keywords : social subjects; biography; discourses; educational research; epistemology; Mexico.