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Embracing the Dance of Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry: The Story of an Evolving Dialogue between Research and Therapy
No full textThis autobiographical account examines the methodological complexities of conducting hermeneutic phenomenological research with integrity. Drawing on five years of doctoral research exploring how Singaporean millennials navigate voice within collective society, the article traces the challenges of maintaining methodological rigor while remaining open to emergent understanding. The narrative addresses a central tension in hermeneutic phenomenology: how clarity and direction emerge not through predetermined frameworks but through sustained attention to lived experience, dialogue, and embodied knowing. The article illustrates how hermeneutic phenomenological as a research method requires researchers to dwell in uncertainty and follow the doubts, shifts, and small awakenings that arise in the research process. Written as a companion for early-career researchers and doctoral students developing their methodological orientation, this article demonstrates that rigor in hermeneutic phenomenology comes not from methodological certainty but from fidelity to the interpretive process itself and staying close to what is lived and emerging
Embodied Ethics of Mediated Touch: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Nurse\u27s Glove
No full textFor the nurse, whether in hospital, community, someone’s home, or almost every other healthcare setting, touching contact with the person in their care is inherent to nursing practices. Charged with the intimate and personal care of patients, the nurse’s touch is often mediated by thin, latex, disposable gloves that affect and shape the nurse’s touch. Yet, it is difficult to imagine a more mundane and unremarkable technology in healthcare than the unassuming disposable glove used by healthcare practitioners. In this phenomenological study, I explored how wearing and not wearing a medical glove might mediate the nurse’s touch, revealing and concealing the embodied practices that the glove makes possible and impossible. This phenomenological inquiry considers the relational and embodied ethics of a basic piece of equipment, the nurse’s glove. Concluding thoughts speak of the need for the nurse to remain aware of the relational experiences for both them and those they look after when wearing gloves
Embodied (Learning) Experience and Augmented Reality
No full textIn the wake of continuing digitalization of everyday life, including the school and other educational institutions, Augmented Reality (AR), is one of the latest technical innovations that promise to improve education both in terms of providing faster access to information and, more importantly, by enhancing the learning experience. But, do extended experiences differ from what we might otherwise call ordinary world-experience? Is the perceptual experience using AR fundamentally different from the non-medialized/augmented experience? And under what conditions is the use of AR technology conceivable and sensible in educational contexts? In addressing these questions, we will first trace some main lines of phenomenological accounts of perception: intentionality, horizontality, intercorporeality (Part 2). Subsequently, we will discuss the question of whether AR not only changes perception, but also the lifeworld of its users at the same time (Part 3). In part 4, we will discuss possible consequences for the use of AR in educational contexts
The Invisible Score: Phenomenology and the Excess of Dance Improvisation
No full textThis paper explores the intersection of embodiment, perception, and aesthetic experiences in dance through the lens of phenomenological theory. Drawing from Maurice Merleau-Ponty\u27s perceptual phenomenology, Jean-Luc Marion\u27s notion of phenomenological excess, and Jean-Louis Chrétien\u27s responsorial phenomenology, I propose variations of audiencing informed by my lived/living experiences as a dance improviser.
Audiencing reveals dance improvisation as a response to a call that urges one to transcend personal boundaries. This call is felt in ways that resonate with a developed phenomenology of audiencing as an act of responsiveness. The paper posits that dancing inherently exceeds any effort to fully comprehend or encapsulate it. Beginning with the contextualization of audiencing within media and performance studies, the discussion extends to a phenomenology of improvisational audiencing and an analysis of the dance\u27s phenomenological excess. The paper concludes by introducing the concept of the ever-present invisible or intangible score: the excess of the dance that cannot fully be captured in words.
Phenomenology of Body Awareness in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
No full textBody awareness is considered to be an important element of mindfulness-based interventions. Although studies have been done on the effects of enhanced body awareness on health and well-being, none of these studies focused on the meaning of the body and body awareness in the teaching and learning process of enhancing one’s body awareness. In this paper, we provide a phenomenology of the body in the practice of a mindfulness-based intervention. We present a participant observation study about an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training. We analyzed, by taking a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, what enhancing one’s body awareness entails in this practice, and how participants experienced their bodies in this process. We identified four ways in which the body (not) appears in MBSR: as intermittently present, as fragmented, while ‘feeling good’, and while ‘not feeling good’. We discussed how these body appearances can be understood through the analytic lens of Leder’s disappearance and dys-appearance, and Zeiler’s eu-appearance, and with Van Manen’s phenomenological distinctions of the body. At the end of this paper, we considered how our findings may cast new light on one of the central tenets in mindfulness practice: to be non-judgmentally aware in the present moment
The Meaning and Significance of Moral Disquiet and Other Related Phenomena: Fear, distress, critique, and tact
No full textIn this text, I explore the phenomenon of moral disquiet as an existential phenomenon with its invariant qualities. This intention makes the paper both methodological and educational. The reason I consider it worthwhile to explore moral disquiet and distinguish this phenomenon from other phenomena is twofold. First, I want to establish a reliable phenomenological research basis and an argument for moral disquiet as an educationally relevant quality. Second, as an educationally relevant quality, moral disquiet must imply phenomenological clarity to avoid confusion with other phenomena that are similar but not the same. I start by exploring the two words ‘moral’ and ‘disquiet’ that constitute the phenomenon \u27moral disquiet’. I explore the word disquiet in relation to three related phenomena: fear, distress, and critique. Then I investigate the connection between moral disquiet and tact as presented by van Manen. Finally, I bring in methodological and epistemological arguments to try to substantiate what I have been doing and why the phenomenon of ‘moral disquiet’ is a highly significant educational issue
Decelerating Education: Four Pedagogical Exercises
No full textCurrent educative practices have given rise to the predominant pressure to increase production and speed in academic work and education in general. Educators need to ask whether conceiving of education in such terms is what we really want our children and youth to experience. In this paper, we aim to interrogate the question of how a deceleration of education is possible, and why this would be desirable for students and teachers. We do this in a circuitous way, by exploring four exercises in pedagogical deceleration. These exercises are inspired by philological, didactical, pedagogical, and phenomenological practices