Writing and poetics in education research: autofiction and performance

Abstract

This study addresses the text space to unfold, in and by writing, problems that prospect the research in Education through the way of poetics. It understands that research, when done by writing, does not transcribe a previous reality, but creates a reality in the composition of the text; that this reality, then, can only be accessed through a fictional route. To this end, this study shows some questions on which it draws lines that define our provisional points, anchorages to think the thinking that thinks the writing of and in the research in Education. Thus, it puts the thought and its relation to the unknown in scene. In fact, this researcher who dramatizes through writing is composed in a co-existential space, in which the notion of authorship is reviewed and exchanged with the image of the narrator of a fiction. This image, in turn, is taken as an autofiction while it puts the writing in relation to a certain notion of performance. The researcher, in this process, becomes the one who narrates the research when composing, also, in this fictional, multiple, polyphonic and polysemic space.