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Through the Lens of Merleau-Ponty : Using Existential Phenomenology in Understanding the Lived Experiences of Patients, Family Members and Their Nurses During Critical Illness in the ICU
No full textThis article discusses how Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology may serve as the lens and theoretical frame in a qualitative research study of the lived experience of patients, their families, and nurses during critical illness in the intensive care unit. Merleau-Ponty\u27s unique existential concepts of corporeality, spatiality, temporality, and relationality provide a useful foundation and serve as a unifying philosophy of science in understanding this nursing phenomenon that is grounded in philosophical beliefs about humans, and the holistic nature of professional nursing that is not amenable to experimental investigative research methods. The research sheds light on the patients, families, and nurses’ embodied temporal, spatial, and relational horizons, and reveals a new conception of critical illness that will provide caregivers with knowledge about effective humanistic, and more holistic care, that opens new ways for coping amongst patients and their families, as well as caregiving possibilities for the nurses. Findings from this qualitative inquiry can help contribute knowledge about family engagement that would impact the provision of care in the intensive care unit, thus improving patient, family, and organizational outcomes
"To Speak of Pedagogy is to Speak of Everything at Once": A review of Tact & the Pedagogical Relation. Introductory Readings, Norm Friesen (Ed.).
No full textBook review of N. Friesen\u27s (Ed.) (2022). Tact & the Pedagogical Relation. Introductory Readings. Published by Peter Lang
Putting Phenomenology Back into Phenomenology: A Review of Michael van Manen & Max van Manen (Eds.), "Classic Writing for a Phenomenology of Practice."
No full textThis is a review of Michael van Manen\u27s & Max van Manen\u27s (Eds.) Classic Writing for a Phenomenology of Practice, published by Routledge
Re-Cognizing Harassment with the Arts
No full textAbsent mechanisms of restorative justice, victims of sexual harassment, particularly those within the LGBT+ community that are already frequent targets of relational aggression, are unlikely to either report or reckon with the consequences of inappropriate workplace behaviors and discrimination. Written from the perspective of a masculinized bisexual whose encounter with a pervasive culture of sexual harassment and psychological abuse provoked suicidal ideation, this paper employs the artistic practices of illustration as a means of first re-cognizing and recognizing phenomena, a Ricœurean construct of narrative and a palimpsest of multivocal text and images to evoke the lived experience of harassment and an analytic layer to invoke the phenomenon. By drawing, writing, and thinking through the phenomenon, the marriage of artistic and phenomenological approaches allows both researcher and reader to confront the ‘painful truths’ that otherwise resist easy analysis
Theory and Practice in Teacher Education : (O.F. Bollnow, 1989)
No full text“Friedrich Schleiermacher [wrote]: ‘for every domain that can be called an art in the narrow sense of the word …practice always precedes theory’ (2021, p. 5). Art is meant here in the sense taken from the Middle Ages, as one speaks of a healing art, the art of statecraft, etc. This means that there has always been—indeed since the beginning of humankind—a kind of education which is manifest in certain practices and [later] in certain institutions such as schools. This all existed before any disciplinary or scientific theory of education had been formed. Schleiermacher continues: ‘The dignity of practice exists independently from theory. Theory only makes practice more conscious’ (p. 6). The task of such a theory, in other words, is to make us aware of what is already given to us. One can put this succinctly: Being a part of an educational science, pedagogy is the theory of a practice, a practice that builds on a previously existing practice, and that is then related back to theory.
What is Moral Disquiet and How Does the Experience of Moral Disquiet Appear in Professional Human Practices? : Facing Responsibility in Nursing, Teaching, and Caring
No full textWhat does moral disquiet mean to professional human practices? The phenomenon of moral disquiet comes to awareness in concrete lived human experiences and might be described with the help of examples from practice. The article explores lived moral disquiet in nursing, teaching and caring practices. It highlights moral disquiet from direct descriptions in which the phenomenon arises as an event in students’ lifeworlds including professional human relationships in societal institutions like a hospital, nursing home and kindergarten. We suggest that moral disquiet, expressed as the human sensitivity toward others, does not depend on success or failure of outcome, but is a quality of belief and hope in the lives of others that offers possible moments of humanness
En-Fleshed Practicing in Organisations Flesh as Elemental Carnality and Formative Medium for Organising Sustainability Development
No full textBased on Merleau-Pontys’s philosophy of flesh, this paper outlines possibilities for organisational practices towards sustainability development. In order to elucidate these en-fleshed practices, the paper begins by presenting Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body and perception as well as his ontology of ‘flesh’. In particular, flesh is interpreted as elemental ‘carnality’ and formative medium. As such, it is processed through sensual and reflexive doubling as a reversibility and chiasm of the sentient and the sensible. This understanding opens for the path to a post-dualistic, transformative approach towards processes of post-dualistic ‘wild being and ‘inter-be(com)ing’ in organisations. These concepts of Flesh are related to affect and imagination as well as organization and sustainability. The paper then offers some practical and political as well as research implications and concludes with some final perspectives on possible enfleshed inter-practices of sustainability
They Have Once Before Lived: An Examination of Resonant Place
No full textThe present essay offers a phenomenological examination of peoples’ experiences of place memory. What is it like when the memory of a place is awoken in the event of daily life? What is it about the experience of certain places that make them significant? How might the experience of strong place memory be described so that it may become better understood? What features anchor a memory of place to our experience of the present? To ask these questions requires an orientation to the lived experience of resonant place. For the purposes of this piece, two themes – resonance as the realization of independence, and resonance as unsettled expectation – are described as unique structures of human experience
A Review of Katarzyna Peoples’ How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation: A Step-by-Step Guide
No full textPublished in 2021 as part of Sage Publications’ Qualitative Research Methods Series, Katarzyna Peoples’ How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation: A Step-by-Step Guide provides budding phenomenologists a practical framework with which to engage a phenomenological research design and craft a quality doctoral dissertation. Peoples offers a point of entry for a novice looking to understand the purpose and machinations of phenomenological research, believing that phenomenological philosophy and research design can be grasped if it is presented in a straightforward manner. Peoples’ book does not overreach, and is both accessible and engaging; it will be helpful for any doctoral student looking to write a phenomenological dissertation