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In 1976, a tiny book, entitled The Rhizome, written by G. Deleuze & F. Guattari was published in French. It was later integrated as the opening plateau in the book Mille Plateaux published in 1980. From a concept of the rhizome emerges a concept of rhizoanalysis, a nonmethod in conducting educational research. Rhizoanalysis proposes to be different relying on its ontological force, transcendental empiricism, created by Deleuze and Guattari. Its originality lies in a decentered subject (human and nonhuman). It appeals to creativity, innovation, and becoming.
In the last century, structuralism was a significant philosophical and linguistic movement embedded in transcendent empiricism. It is a binary system (e.g., good or bad; literate or illiterate) associated with linear representation. Representation limits experience to the world as it is known to individuals, not as a world that could be. Linear...
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Masny, D. (2017). Rhizoanalysis as Educational Research. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_63
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