‘비판성’의 새로운 탐색: 비판적 존재론과 브리콜라주 연구활동의 관점에서

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to offer investigate conceptual foundations for critical research, so called, ‘critical ontology’ and ‘bricolage’ research activities, in the perspectives of a critical applied linguist. The critique, as reinterpreted as the arts of existence or critical ontology of ourselves, is placed in the on-going inquiry for the critical and qualitative researchers in this study. Critical understanding of ourselves is also suited with bricolage research. The concept of bricolage can be illustrated in a praxis of interpretation and understanding with getting together of rigorousness, complexity, and criticality. In this study, the combined characteristics of critical ontology and bricolage were to be discussed in the construction of a critical reseacher’ biographical growth. In the preliminary stage for the autobiographical research to find out the combined meaningfulness of the critical ontology and bricolage, I mapped out the prominent and turning knowledges which made myself identified as ‘critical researcher’ in my research career. My research trajectory, based on the published research papers and books of mine, were reflected and divided into the four (narrative, critical, discursive, cultural) major turns. It turned out that I have developed my identity of ‘a critical researcher’ through the perspectives of critical ontology and bricolage. It is hoped that the further writing of autobiographies plays as a autonomous channel for developing the sense of being a critical researcher. Possible areas of research are discussed. This article concluded with some suggestions for future directions of methodological development.