Commonality AND Difference? Attempts to Escape from Theoretical Dualisms in Emancipatory Research in Education.

The article analyzes the significance of the identification of ethnic and class differences in educational research on gender. On the basis of postructuralist theory, factors like gender, race, social class are not internal to different selves instead the self is positioned and repositioned in discourses around gender, race and social class. This theory has supported the feminist work and provided tools to analyze the complexity of human interaction around issues of identity and power. The construction of gender difference by primary and secondary school children depends on their interactive environment. People are shaped by and drawn on experiences and influences around them in their constructions of themselves. Their personality develops and changes throughout their lives. People's constructions of selves depends on other people's perceptions about them. So, it is not possible during an educational research that a researcher is able to predict the behavior of student respondents. But this does not mean that the research is not valid or useful. The researcher should ask student respondents whether their opinions would be able to provide new insights on the subject of the research.