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& EFL | Curriculum R & D |Videos What is phenomenology? Phenomenology is a 20th-century philosophical
movement dedicated to describing the structures of experience as they
present themselves to consciousness, without recourse to theory,
deduction, or assumptions from other disciplines such as the natural
sciences. Dr. Max van Manen's Phenomenology Online More... What is hermeneutics? Hermeneutics is a branch of continental European philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of written texts. Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, the word hermeneutics has referred to the science or art of interpretation and usually took the form of a theory that promised to lay out the rules governing the discipline of interpretation. So, before the end of the nineteenth century, it is more concerned with methods, techniques. The last century and recent development is more philosophical and has been widely applied in social sciences (literary theory, for instance), human sciences (pedagogy, health science, for example), even in the recent development of translatology and artificial intelligence. Dilthey, Gadamer, Heidegger, Habermas, Ricoeur are among the many influential scholars of hermeneutics. In the course of its development, many types of hermeneutics has been formed, classical hermeneutics, phenomenological hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics, critical hermeneutics, reader-response theory, to name a few. More... What is phenomenological pedagogy? Pedagogy refers to the practice wherein we constantly and thoughtfully distinguish appropriate from less appropriate ways of acting relationally with children or young people in concrete and particular situations. Pedagogy is primarily neither a science nor a technology, though in reality many scholars treat it in an empirically scientific way. There are three fundamental conditions of pedagogy: love and care, hope and trust, responsibility. Phenomenological pedagogy is more tuned to pedagogical experience, the existential structure of which, according to Dr. Max van Manen, can at least be differentiated as pedagogical situations, pedagogical relations and pedagogical actions. (Brief Summary of Tact of Teaching) More... Human Science Research Methodology Hermeneutic
Phenomenology as a research inquiry, also known as Human Science
Research Methodology as Dr. Max van Manen termed it, is a study of
lived experience, of the lifeworld - the world as we immediately
experience it pre-reflectively rather than as we conceptualize,
categorize, or reflect upon it. It is a research of what it means to
be humans.. Hermeneutic Phenomenological research is fundamentally a
writing activity. Research and writing are aspects of one process. More... Human Science VS Natural Science The distinction of "Human" Science versus "Natural" Science is often attributed to Wilhelm Dilthey. The difference resides in what it studies: natural science studies "objects of nature," "things," "natural events," and "the way that objects behave. "Human science, in contrast, studies "persons," or beings that have "consciousness" and that "act purposefully" in and on the world by creating objects of "meaning" that are "expressions" of how human beings exist in the world. The preferred method for natural sciences, since Galileo, has been detached observation, controlled experiment, and mathematical or quantitative measurement. In contrast, the preferred method for human science involves description, interpretation, and self-reflective or critical analysis. We explain nature, but human life we must understand, said Dilthey (1976). Whereas natural science tends to taxonomize natural phenomena (such as in biology) and causally or probabilistically explain the behavior of things (such as in physics), human science aims at explicating the meaning of human phenomena (such as in literary or historical studies of texts) and at understanding the lived structures of meanings (such as in phenomenological studies of the lifeworld). ---- (Max van Manen, p.3. 1991) More... Quantitative VS Qualitative Methods See
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