L’écriture limite: Kristeva's Postmodern Feminist Ethics

McCance, Dawne

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1996.tb00668.x

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“…The meaning-making of the semiotic recognizes this connectedness between the subject and her context, which Kristeva refers to as the ‘symbolic’. McCance (1996: 147) confirms Kristeva’s insistence on this relationship, where subject formation always ‘requires both the semiotic and symbolic modalities’. For teachers from diverse cultures and backgrounds, this involves recognizing the fundamental inner knowledge involved in reforming their daily routines, habits and rituals, redefining understandings in their new context.…”

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Early childhood teacher cultural Otherness and belonging

Arndt

2018

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Early childhood education settings are arguably places of community, togetherness and belonging. But what if they are not? What if individuals’ senses of identity, place or reality clash, do not fit or, worse, repel or offend? This article picks up on the largely under-researched area of teachers’ belonging and sense of cultural identity in early childhood settings. It argues for the critical importance of elevating and paying attention to teachers’ subject formation and identity. Drawing on some of the concerns and common conceptions of cultural Otherness in early childhood education, the article uses Kristeva’s foreigner lens and her theory on the subject in process to argue that teachers’ sense of belonging, of their own cultural identity and place, in their teaching team and in their early childhood setting is critical for an overall sense of openness and belonging throughout the setting. Teachers are commonly called on to nurture children’s and their families’ cultural identities. The sense of belonging intended through such practices depends on teacher attitudes and orientations to cultural Otherness that go beyond the surface – that allow for the difficult, complicated, unpredictable processes of becoming part of a centre community. This article offers a challenge to rethink teacher Otherness, for the (re-)elevation of their own sense of belonging in early childhood settings and teaching teams.

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Early childhood teacher cultural Otherness and belonging

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2018

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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“…To turn to one critical example, Dawne McCance (1996) analyzes the relationship between Kristeva's theory and the question of a postmodern feminist ethics in her essay “ L'ecriture limite: Kristeva's Postmodern Feminist Ethics.” Kristeva, she states, does not allow for a “treatise on ethics” but instead gives a “performance of ethics” that “exiles the unified subject.” Citing Leon Roudiez, McCance says, “the text is the visible stage … of a performance that actively involves writer and reader alike” (McCance 1996, 145 quoting Roudiez 1974, 297); furthermore, she says Kristeva brings to theory “something unmistakably alien.” This reading of the nature of performance in Kristeva and its connection to a feminist ethics helps to clarify the curious component of some critiques of Kristeva that, in seeking to analyze her theory, also seem compelled to enact the same gesture of speaking at the borders (frontières) in an interplay of voices (Oliver 1993a). 2…”

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“…1 1 For additional analyses of the specific nature of and the implications for the ethical in Kristeva's work see McCance 1996; Ziarek 1992 and 1993; and Oliver 1993a and b. …”

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The Speaking Abject in Kristeva'sPowers of Horror

Harrington¹

1998

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Key Concepts: Associationism

Spitzer

1994

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Associationism can be broadly defined as a school of thought in philosophy and psychology that holds that mental activity can be accounted for by processes that combine simple elements or ideas. More than a century ago, scientific psychology started taking measurements of word associations, and only a few years later, word associations became a major research tool in psychiatry. With the advent of neurobiology and the discovery of the neuron, the term association came to denote physical connections between cells or parts of the brain. The resulting ambiguity made the concept highly fruitful and at the same time introduced the risk of committing categorical mistakes and of engaging in unfounded speculation, since little was known about the actual functioning of neurons. In modern cognitive neuroscience, computational models provide the critically needed link between the psychological and the biological approaches. The concept of association, with its biological, psychological, and computational connotations, provides the framework needed for further experimental research. Its potential for contributing to our understanding of psychopathology can hardly be overestimated.

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L’écriture limite: Kristeva's Postmodern Feminist Ethics

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Early childhood teacher cultural Otherness and belonging

Early childhood teacher cultural Otherness and belonging

The Speaking Abject in Kristeva'sPowers of Horror

Key Concepts: Associationism

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