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Reflective Methods

The purpose of phenomenological reflection is to try to grasp the meaning of something. Phenomenological reflection is both easy and difficult.It is easy because to perceive the meanings of human experiences is something everyone does constantly in everyday life. For...

Relational Knowledge

Relational knowledge: We discover what we know in our relations. Some of our knowledge resides intangibly in our relations with others. On the one hand, this relational dimension poses limitations upon the degree of reflection and distance one can assume in a...

Relational Reflection

Relational Reflection Lived other (communality or relationality) is the lived relation we maintain with others in the interpersonal space that we share with them. As we meet others, we approach them in a corporeal way: through a handshake or by gaining an impression...

Sayings

Sayings, proverbs, expressions, and idiomatic phrases can be sources of phenomenological meaning. Sayings and idiomatic phrases can be helpful sources for phenomenological meaning. They may reveal something about the experience they are used to describe. For example,...

Seeking

Seeking: A phenomenologist is a seeker of meaning. The phenomenologist seeks to be a writer, and as writer he or she seeks to enter the space of the text where one tries to gain a view of or to touch the subject one is trying to describe. Seeking to be a writer. But...

Situational Confidence

Situational confidence is a quality of tact. The interesting thing about tact is precisely that it is insensitive to traditional theory-practice distinctions. At the same time we know intuitively that tact must always remain receptive to the experiential and situated...