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Pre-Service Teachers in the Outdoors: A Phenomenological Exploration Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Josie Melton
While a child’s sense of wonder is thought to come naturally, less is known about how adults foster or connect with their sense of wonder. For the purposes of this exploration, wonder is the openness that comes when one dwells with the present moment, allowing questions to arise, rather than using wonder as a tool to answer a question (Gadamer, 2004; van Manen, 2014). Spending time in the outdoors
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Experiential Intensity of Exploring Place Abandoned Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Kevin Redmond
There is a growing global shift towards urbanization resulting in diminishing connections with the traditional rural placescape. Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has a long history of out-migration and internal migration between communities in coastal areas within the province. Resettlement programs initiated by the NL government between 1954 and 1975 accounted for the internal migration of approximately
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Painting Deep Time: Encountering Landforms’ Alterity and Phusis Through Phenomenology and Oil Painting Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Tanya J. Behrisch
The practice of oil painting landforms, rocks and sea water in Jervis Inlet, British Columbia (BC) puts me in dialogue with land’s resistant alterity. By closely attuning to landforms, and by stepping back and blurring my focus at regular intervals while practicing oil painting of landforms, I experience phusis of land and of my painting. Through self-concealment and emergence, land alternates between
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Attunement as a Pedagogical Starting Point Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Andrew Foran,Evan Throop-Robinson,Kevin Redmond
For many teachers, the value of pedagogical reflection is missing from practice. Rational educational approaches that prioritize judging and measuring students overshadow the relational dimension of teaching. Our study investigated this relational gap to explore more fully teachers’ attunement to the child as a unique person. We examined lived experiences of six teachers pedagogically engaged with
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Being Outdoors: Lived Experience on the Franklin River Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Marcus Morse,Sean Blenkinsop
Being outdoors can provide experiential possibilities not readily available indoors. In this paper we draw on phenomenological research undertaken with participants on 10-day outdoor Franklin River journeys in Tasmania, Australia, to illustrate such possibilities. By exploring multiple aspects and variations of participant lived experience outdoors we focus, in particular, on the potential ontological
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Hermeneutics in an Age of Alternative Facts, Fake News, and Climate Change Denial Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Patrick Howard
A Review of Clingerman, F., Treanor, B., Drenthen, M., and Utsler, D. (Eds.) Interpreting Nature: The emerging field of environmental hermeneutics.
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Language-ing the Earth: Experiential Renewal for a Relationally Sensitive Environmentalism Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Patrick Howard
This paper investigates human relationship with the larger living landscape that is grounded in experiential renewal. Phenomenology is antithesis to the process of abstraction and objectification through which the world as we experience it is diminished by conceptualization and categorization. Recent studies to understand the natural world as a hermeneutic text offers important reflections on the human
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Dilthey and Human Science: Autobiography, Hermeneutics and Pedagogy Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Norm Friesen
Using Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as an example, this paper introduces Wilhlem Dilthey’s (1833–1911) hermeneutics and pedagogical theory. Dilthey saw biographies (and autobiographies like Angelou’s) as nothing less than “the highest and most instructive form of the understanding of life.” This, then, serves as the starting point for his hermeneutics or theory of understanding, which
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Owning an Older, No-Longer-New, Used Car Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Rodney Evans
In his highly insightful and wide-ranging rebuttal article “Doing Phenomenology on the Things,” van Manen makes the important claim that “the mission of modern phenomenology transcends foundational and exegetical philosophical theorizing” (2019, p. 3). I take this claim seriously and put forward this article as an exercise in practical lifeworld phenomenological reflection. By lifeworld I refer to
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Moral Complexities of Student Question-Asking in Classroom Practice Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Stephen C. Yanchar,Susan P. Gong
Prior research on student question-asking has primarily been conducted from a cognitive, epistemological standpoint. In contrast, we present a hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation that emphasizes the moral-practical context in which question-asking functions as a situated way of being in the midst of practice. More particularly, we present a hermeneutic study of student question-asking in a graduate
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Relational Perception and ‘the feel’ for Tools in the Wooden Boat Workshop Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Tom Martin
This paper presents insights into the lived experience of maritime carpentry practices, based on six months of sensory-ethnographic fieldwork as a wooden boat builder’s apprentice. In particular, the author explores the widely-reported experience of tools ‘withdrawing’ from consciousness as craftspeople master their use. Without contradicting these interpretations – many of which are constructed by
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The Phenomenology of the Pipe Organ Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Michael R. Kearney
An extended illustration from Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception describes the interplay of habit, sedimentation, and intersubjectivity in the practice and performance of a skilled organist. This paper takes up Merleau-Ponty’s example in order to describe some of the phenomenological characteristics of embodied musical performance. These characteristics point toward an intersubjective event
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Being and Becoming a Teacher in Neoliberal Times Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Andrew Foran,Magnus Levinsson
Editorial
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Being and Becoming Woke in Teacher Education Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Timothy Babulski
The role education plays in society has been contested in the United States since the inception of public education. Historically this contention has produced a delicate balance between promoting the social justice concerns of educating democratic citizens and the disciplinary concerns of individual intellectual development. Teacher preparation programs in American normal schools, colleges, and universities
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Pedagogic Being in a Neoliberal School Market: Developing Pedagogical Tact Through Lived Experience Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Ilona Rinne
Exploring teaching as an upper secondary school teacher through lived experience offers pedagogical insights that have been challenged over a period of 25 years, when neoliberal educational policies gradually transformed the conditions for teaching in Swedish schools. The article is grounded in the assumption that the teaching profession is complex and there are multiple tacit dimensions inherent in
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Student Teachers’ Storytelling: Countering Neoliberalism in Education Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Ola Henricsson
Everyday teaching involves emotional and relational irrationalities, and these aspects of pedagogical sensitivity and sense are critical for beginning teachers as they develop their practice. The complex elements of what it means to teach are often impossible to grasp from an instrumental approach to teacher education, which emphasizes subject matter knowledge and practical behavioral know-how. Increased
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Developing Sensitive Sense and Sensible Sensibility in Pedagogical Work: Professional development through reflection on emotional experiences Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Anna-Carin Bredmar
The increased influence of neoliberalism in education has allowed the trend of evidence-based teaching to dominate professional development in many Western countries. Despite increased and persistent neoliberal measures in education, education critics argue that neoliberal reforms have a naive view of teaching. This narrowed neoliberal view both ignores the complexities involved in the everyday interaction
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Does Gert Biesta’s book, The Rediscovery of Teaching, matter to education? Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Tone Saevi
Gert J.J. Biesta 2017 New York and London: Routledge 111 pages / 5 chapters + prologue / epilogue / index.
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Professional Ethics as Experienced by Student Teachers: A Neoliberal View Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Marita Cronqvist
Student teachers’ experiences of professional ethics, as lived practice, need to be visualized and verbalized to support their ability to develop an ethical practice. The aim of this article is to discuss the lived experiences of professional ethics from beginning teachers’ internship, based on a phenomenological study. Some of the essential meanings are interpreted in relation to the tension between
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Pedagogy: A Teacher’s Practice Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Andrew Foran, Dan Robinson, Margareth Eilifsen, Elizabeth Munro, Tess Thurber
Neoliberal assaults upon public education have been grounded upon the supposition that schools are failing to prepare students to respond to local and global economic needs and realities. The result has left the relational between pupils and teachers as a taken-for-granted practice. Lived experiences often can show and capture the unexpressed in taken for granted moments. This discussion presents teaching
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Teacher Educators in Neoliberal Times: A Phenomenological Self-Study Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Magnus Levinsson, Anita Norlund, Dennis Beach
In Sweden, and most Western countries, pervasive neoliberal policies have dramatically transformed the entire education sector in a matter of decades. As teacher educators, we have experienced how neoliberal currents have pushed Swedish teacher education towards a teacher training paradigm which may risk undermining the foundations for professional judgement. Moreover, the Bologna Process and the introduction
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Editorial: On the Primacy of Language in Phenomenological Research Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Erika Goble
Editorial
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A Review of H. Peter Steeves' Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomeological Aesthetics and the Life of Art Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Dylan Van der Schyff
Review
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The Phenomenology of the First Date after Connecting Online Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Nicholas Jacobs
The proliferation of technology has changed the ways we are able to interact with the world, and, in turn, how we are able to interact with others. In recent years, online dating applications have become commonplace for connecting with others in search of romantic relationships. This paper reflects on the phenomenology of the first date after connecting online and explores several aspects of this unique
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Reduction in Practice: Tracing Husserl's Real-Life Accomplishment of Reduction as Evidenced by his Idea of Phenomenology Lectures Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Juha Himanka
Husserl claimed that reduction is the true starting point of phenomenological research, but to figure out how this deed should actually be accomplished has turned out to be a very challenging task. In this study, I explicate how Husserl accomplished reduction during his series of lectures entitled The Idea of Phenomenology. He does not state it explicitly, but what actually happened on the last day
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Pedagogical Practices in Vocational Education Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Wouter Pols
What is it like to teach at a vocational school? What are the pedagogical challenges for teachers who are responsible for teaching young people going into the trades? Since September 2015, the Research Center Urban Talent of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences has conducted field research at six different schools of vocational education. As a member of the center’s research staff, I conducted
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Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Edvin Ostergaard
In the cave allegory, Plato illustrates his theory of ideas by showing that the world man senses and tries to understand, actually only is a dim representation of the real world. We know the allegory for its light and shadow; however, there is also sound and echo in the cave. In this article, I discuss whether the narrative of the prisoners in the cave is in tune with an audial experience and whether
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On Storytelling, Teaching, Chance, and Gratitude: In Conversation with Alphonso Lingis Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-07-16 Tone Saevi,Patrick Howard
On Storytelling, Teaching, Chance, andGratitude: In Conversation with AlphonsoLingis
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Lingis Special Issue: Travel as the Possibility of Being Brought Back to Ourselves Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-07-16 Patrick Howard,Tone Saevi
Lingis Special Issue: Travel as the Possibility of Being Brought Back to Ourselves
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“Deeper Than Even the Grain Goes”: Attending to Sound as Pedagogical Practice in Alphonso Lingis’s The Murmur of the World Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-07-16 Patrick Howard
This article uses Alphonso Lingis’s essay The Murmur of the World as a catalyst for a phenomenological inquiry into the experience of making room for an articulate world; a world that speaks. A great deal has been written about vision as our primary source of insight and understanding. Visual perception dwarfs the other modalities by which we know the world. In The Murmur of the World, Lingis calls
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Vital Powers: Cultivating a Critter Community Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-07-16 Stephen Smith
This paper is based on the eco-pedagogical aspiration to live with domesticated animals in accordance with Alphonso Lingis's Community of those who have nothing in common. I draw upon this remarkable text as well as Lingis's animal writings in describing moments and movements of pathic community. Such a community in affective affiliation with one another, where symbiotic relations are possible and
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Memorial for Eugene T. Gendlin Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Kevin C. Krycka
Memorial for Eugene T. Gendlin
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In Memoriam: Lester Eugene Embree Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Scott D Churchill
Lester Eugene Embree(January 9, 1938 – January 19, 2017)
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Voice No Voice Counter Voice... Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Tone Saevi
Editorial
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Phenomenology of Professional Practices in Education and Health Care: An Empirical Investigation Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Wenche Bjorbækmo, Kristin Vindohl Evensen, Karen Synne Groven, Gro Rugseth, Øyvind F. Standal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lived Space and Support as Interrelated Phenomena in the Context of Young People with Mental Health Problems Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Mona Sommer, Tone Saevi
The Norwegian welfare system due to human rights is in charge of providing necessary support of life to every citizen in terms of a safe place to live, the opportunity to education or employment and meaningful life accomplishments. We explore how public sustenance is experienced by a group of young receivers of public support. The article is one of three substudies drawing on empirical material from
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When My Voice is not My Voice: Speaking through a Speech Generating Device Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Kathy Howery
A speech-generating device (SGD) is not a thing that many people have experienced. For those with severe speech impairments, however, it may be a technology giving them voice and an integral part of their daily lives. What is it like to have an embodiment relation with SGD? This article draws upon Don Ihde’s insights regarding human-technology relations to explore how SGDs may act to mediate and condition
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Acting Slow in a Fast World: A Phenomenological Study of Caring in the Recovery Room Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Pia Dreyer, Bente Martinsen, Annelise Norlyk, Anita Haahr
In this paper, we discuss “the slow in the fast” related to care situations in a “fast-track” hospital setting were the length of patients’ stay has been reduced significantly. The discussion is based on a narrative created from observations made in a postoperative care unit where patients are intensively observed and cared for during a very short time span. We found that within the phenomenological
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On the Lived, Imagined Body: A Phenomenological Praxis of a Somatic Architecture Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Christine Bellerose
"On the Lived, Imagined Body" is a reflective remembering from the point of view of a movement performance artist's training session learning to dance with imagined wings when in her lived experience, the body of the dancer is aware somatically of moving with wings that do not actually exist. The overarching conceptualization in this article describes the inner-outer tensions, the kinesthetic, somatic
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Book Review--Max van Manen's Pedagogical Tact. Knowing what to Do When you Don't Know What to Do. Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-30 Jan Jaap Rothuizen
A review of Manen, M. van. (2015). Pedagogical tact. Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press Inc.
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The Vanity Drawer Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Erika Goble
The vanity is often considered a piece of traditional furniture for female beautification. Although it has changed form over time, some variant of the vanity drawer continues to exist in many men’s and women’s households. This article considers the unique roles that vanity drawers—in their various shapes and forms—can play in our daily life and the different meanings it can hold.
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The Purse: Carrying Around My Private World Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Nicole Glenn
The purse is an object so ordinary and everyday that it is unlikely to have elicited much thought or reflection. Nevertheless, its capacity to extend the domestic into the foreign and provide a private space in public mark it as unique. In this paper, inspired by Heidegger’s jug, I examine the particularities of the purse and reflect on its unique meanings as a carrier of a private world.
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The Reader's Sticky Note Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Yin Yin
The sticky note is a ubiquitous yet taken-for-granted item of modern life. Its sticky invitation to note-making has made it a compelling and wholly fragmentary organizational tool. Examining this simple technology in the reader’s lifeworld, this article aims to glean insight into the phenomena of memory, noting, reading, and the ongoing yet ineffable moments of meaning-making in our everyday life.
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The Yoga Mat Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Gillian Lemermeyer
After centuries of yoga practice without any specialized surface, the yoga mat now seems to have become a nearly indispensable part of the practice. This phenomenology explores the intimations, the intimacy, and the space of the yoga mat in its everyday usage. It seems that the mat convenes a sacred space not only for the practice of yoga but of the practice of yoga.
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Golden Paper, a Chain and a Bag: A Phenomenology of Queer Things in a Special Needs Education Unit Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Kristin Evensen, Øyvind Standal, Borgunn Ytterhus
Children naturally play with things in both expected and unexpected ways. A stick, a spoon, or a chain of pearls may each seem to contain a goldmine of possibilities for the individual child. Every child encounters an object according to their own predilections and abilities. Some children, due to severe and multiple disabilities, are restricted in their possibilities to approach certain things. In
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Beyond Human Subjectivity and Back to the Things Themselves: Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-12-11 Erika Goble
A review of Bennett. J. (2010) Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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The Feeling of Seeing: Factical Life in Salsa Dance Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Rebecca Lloyd
Salsa dancing, a partnered dance premised on the felt sense of connection, is well suited to an exploration of Henry’s radical phenomenology of immanence and Heidegger’s facticity of life. Birthed in social celebratory contexts, salsa carries a particular motile freedom. What matters most is not how the dance movements are created from an outer frame of reference, but the experience of interactive
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When I Dance My Walk: A Phenomenological Analysis of Habitual Movement in Dance Practices Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Carolina Bergonzoni
In this article, I describe the experience of dancing-a-walk. My specific focus is on the shift that I perceive in my body when I dance-a-walk rather than functionally walking. Following a firstperson perspective, I demonstrate how my experience of practicing dancing-a-walk interrogates the habit of walking and makes it come alive again as an expression of the body. First, I show how the practice of
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In Praise of Phenomenology Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
A critical assessment of Merleau-Ponty’s conception of phenomenology highlights singular differences between Husserl’s phenomenological methodology and existential analysis, between epistemology and ontology, and between essential and individualistic perspectives. When we duly follow the rigorous phenomenological methodology described by Husserl, we are confronted with the challenge of making the familiar
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Transforming Body, Emerging Utterance: Technique Acquisition at a Puppet Theater Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Haruka Okui
This paper describes the moment when a new body technique is acquired, using a case study in which three puppeteers manipulate a single puppet together. Although phenomenology assumes that the world is always “already there” before reflection begins, we can still ask how a sequence of movements is acquired. Struggling to learn puppet choreography in a training session, the learner’s body encounters
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Editorial: Life Phenomenology--Movement, Affect and Language Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Stephen Smith, Tone Saevi, Rebecca Lloyd, Scott Churchill
The “life phenomenology” theme of the 35 th International Human Science Research Conference challenged participants to consider pressing questions of life and of living with others of our own and other-than-human kinds. The theme was addressed by keynote speakers Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Ralph Acampora and David Abram who invoked a motile, affective and linguistic awareness of how we might dwell actively
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The Vitality of Humanimality: From the Perspective of Life Phenomenology Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Stephen Smith
While interactions with other animate beings seem mostly to serve our own human interests, there are, at times, fugitive glimpses, passing contacts, momentary motions, and fleeting feelings of vital connection with other life forms. Life phenomenology attempts to realize these relational, interactive and intercorporeal possibilities. It challenges the language game of presuming the muteness and bruteness
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Trading in Imaginaries: Locating Authenticity in Argentine Tango Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-07-11 Rebecca Barnstaple
Argentine tango tends to be associated with highly gendered images of women and men locked in contorted embraces. These images constitute a tango imaginary that is removed from the lived experience of the dance. Remaining close to the experiential core of tango, this paper provides a Heideggerian-inspired phenomenological account that re-imagines tango as a mode of being-in-the-world. By situating
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The Quest for Traditions, or a Case of Philosophy of Education Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-06-28 Karsten Kenklies
See full-text article.
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From Necker Cubes to Polyrhythms: Fostering a Phenomenological Attitude in Music Education Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-06-28 Dylan Van der Schyff
Phenomenology is explored as a way of helping students and educators open up to music as a creative and transformative experience. I begin by introducing a simple exercise in experimental phenomenology involving multi-stable visual phenomena that can be explored without the use of complex terminology. Here, I discuss how the “phenomenological attitude” may foster a deeper appreciation of the structure
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Thinking, Longing, and Nearness: In Memoriam Bernd Jager (1931–2015) Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-06-28 David Seamon
Citation: Seamon, D. (2016). Thinking, Longing, and Nearness: In Memoriam Bernd Jager (1931-2015). Phenomenology & Practice, 10(1), 47-58. Retrieved from ://WOS:000379143500004
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A Phenomenological Investigation of the Presencing of Space Phenomenology & Practice (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2016-06-28 Francisco Mata
In this paper the author explores certain fulfilling personal experiences that he describes as the presencing of space, i.e. the way in which an individual’s spatial involvement may put him or her in contact with reality as a whole. These experiences are investigated from a phenomenological perspective, and the differences between them and other similar experiences, such as that of the sublime or topophilia