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Collaborative Reflection

Collaborative Reflection Reflections on the thematic and narrative dimensions of a phenomenological text may be conducted collaboratively, by a research group or participants of a seminar. Collaborative reflective discussions are helpful in generating deeper insights...

Comparative Reflection

Comparative Reflection Phenomenological literature may contain material which has already addressed in a descriptive or an interpretive manner the very topic or question which preoccupies us. The work of other phenomenologists can be a source with which we can enter...

Conceptual Reflection

Conceptual Reflection Concept analysis is a philosophical technique for specifying differences of meaning. Concept analysis is the process of breaking up a complex conceptual or linguistic entity into its most basic semantic constituents. One assumption of conceptual...

Corporeal Reflection

Corporeal Reflection Lived body (corporeality) refers to the phenomenological fact that we are always bodily in the world. When we meet another person in his or her landscape or world we meet that person first of all through his or her body. In our physical or bodily...

Etymological Reflection

Etymological Reflection The search of etymological sources can be an important aspect of phenomenological “data collecting.” The first thing that often strikes us about any phenomenon is that the words we use to refer to the phenomenon have lost some of their original...

Exegetical Reflection

Exegetical reflection Exegetical reflection involves the critical, sensitive, and creative reading of related texts Exegetical reflection is the careful studying of related texts in search for insights or perspectives that may further your research. But exegetical...