What are the implications of the term diverse ways of life for educational research?
Educational and pedagogy theory are themselves discursive concepts. They not only concern themselves with a variety of lifestyles and forms of existence, nor do they just describe these but instead take part in generating these. The knowing subject, critical pedagogy and educational theory do not simply face prevailing social conditions. Rather, through the discourses and terms governing them, these fields are actively involved in the production of ‘truths’ and of subject positions. Moreover, they are involved in making possible or impossible the critical analysis of these truths and the ability to shift subject positions. According to discourse analysis, by way of their theories pedagogy and education shape the self-concept of individuals and thus are contributing to the emergence of different ways of life. From the constructive force of educational discourses arises a challenge for educators, namely to sensitise themselves for how their own discourses participate in the production an
