Imagining angels, but not as reflections.

A praxis-oriented reintegration of the shadow

Diane Leger

A partial journey, Imagining angels, but not as reflections represents the difficult passage from the moral to the ethical, from quasi-object via continual auto-formation towards a “true” subject and its never-ending dialogic with things, others, and self. It is always a story of becoming, a story of education. The journey covers different stages in my Master's degree and now continues in my doctoral work with respect to teacher training. It is about my personal and professional journey as teacher/researcher, traced as a praxis, as a way of moving through an indignation of absurdities and the lack of ethics within a humanity to which I belong and for which I am responsible. An educationally-based praxis emerges which has allowed me to avoid succumbing to nihilism or dogmatism (Daignault, 1994) and to renew relations with myself, others, and the world.