Subject(s): education

Examines the similarities and differences in the meaning of aging for young and old adults. Finds young adults associate aging with increased responsibility and lost freedom. Older adults tend to associate aging with everyday events or no specific events at all.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Rich description of the "first kiss" phenomenon, with considerable interview and literary evidence. Discusses phenomena like "anticipation", the wait, the moment of the first kiss, the moment of disengagement and the aftermath. Develops a typology of first kisses, including the "natural kiss", the "disappointing kiss" and the "assautive kiss".
 

Subject(s): education

The article attempts to visualize the way in which children and young people think about the environment. The study is based on empirical material consisting of drawings produced by 109 children and young people, combined with subsequent oral comments. The aim is to explore the thinking of children and young people and to interpret the meaning of their thoughts about our environment.
 

Subject(s): education

Abstract: "Focuses on research practice and on the quest for entry into the life-world of the research participant. Illustration of the role of bracketing; Ways in which an aspect of the life-world of college students (cheating) is revealed; Bracketing as the resolve to set aside theories in order to reveal engaged, live experience."
 

Subject(s): psychology

A straightforward examination of the commonalities shared by "friendship families:" "networks that include families of friends as often as biological families [forming] vital mixtures of intimacy." Examines a number of cases in some detail, and concludes by describing their essential shared components, such as: prioritized commitments, synchronized movements, and "looking life in the eye together".
 

Subject(s): psychology

Points out that silence only exists in relation to speech; enumerates the different kinds of silence: taciturn, defiant, by compact, of kindness, focussing on the "fulfilled" silence that comes at the end of a conversation. "But if silence is supposed to be fulfilment, it cannot be striven for as such directly." In the same way, conversation "often eveolves out fo the most unpromising beginnings, even without any prior intention, and gradually gains in profundity."
 

Subject(s): education

Considers the difference between lived and mathematical space; looks at aspects of dwelling (being at home, architectural and traditional dimensions), roads (as experientially one-dimensional and opposed to inhabitation and wandering), housekeeping and space arranged for convenience (Zuhandensein), lived distance, and affective space.
 

Subject(s): education

Describes the mathematics classroom from the perspective of social phenomenology. Discusses the classroom as an environment of signs, considers frameworks for mathematical work and the evolution of mathematical understanding.
 

Subject(s): education

Differentiates between Moral freedom and the freedom of caprice and revolt experienced by the child. Describes the development of both in term of "freedom as the pure climate in which the mind is able to develop to its full perfection."
 

Subject(s): education

Differentiates between Moral freedom and the freedom of caprice and revolt experienced by the child. Describes the development of both in term of "freedom as the pure climate in which the mind is able to develop to its full perfection."
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "This phenomenological research investigation consisted of first person accounts of adults experienceing chronic insomnia.... The descriptions of the particpants' experience of insomnia were analyzed, using a phenomenological methodology based on van Kaam (1969) and Moustakas (1998, 1990). From this study it became clear that the co-researchers' experience of insomnia resembled a metaphor for the way they were conducting their life. In essence, they were asleep to their inner world, seldom finding the time to explore or become aware of bodily rhythms, inner direction or need.
 

Subject(s): education

Presents information on the study which compares analogue and clinically depressed samples on the phenomenology of the depressive experience. Method of the study; Results and discussion
 

Subject(s): education

Abstract: "This report demonstrates how narrative findings from phenomenological research can provide insights into the structures of lived experience that generalize beyond the individual cases. Building upon a narrative perspective, the author sggests that the phenomenological study of schizophrenic delusions can disclose the subjective lives of people struggling with this illness. Viewing delusions as stories that people with schizophrenia tell about their lives further suggests that delusions may play a role in the course of the disorder as 'regulatory mechanisms' that help people modulate the amount of change to which they will have to adapt in the context of significant life events."
 

Subject(s): psychology,religion

Abstract: "The author examines personal meanings ascribed to the experience of touch in the context of forgiveness. Data from in-depth interviews with 6 self-reported Christians were analyzed to determine themes in the meanings participants assigned to a forgiving touch."
 

Subject(s): education,psychology

Discusses the contemporaneous state of understandings of affect in psychology, concluding that it is seriously lacking. Considers at some length a detailed description of a specific experience of anxiety.
 

Subject(s): education

Presents the findings of phenomenological research of forgiving another with a focus on impetus, outcome and relationship to reconciliation. The article also introduces preliminary implications of psychotherapeutic application of the distinction between forgiveness and reconciliation.
 

Subject(s): education

Discusses the phenomenology in dance. Intuitive and theoretical reflections on dance; Three related possibilities for developing phenomenology in the dance research for the future; Connection with hermeneutics; Dancing the dreambody; Intrinsic dance.
 

Subject(s): psychology

"This paper constructs an explication of the question, insofar as dying persons arouse a sense of anxiety among those around them what is the nature of this anxiety?" Starts by examinating in some detail an example from Simone de Beauvoir's writings.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "In recent years psychotherapists have recognized the importance of shame for understanding the therapy process and psychological disturbances. Although many investigators have called for a phenomenological study of shame because of its personal nature, gew have proceeded accordingly. This article shows how critical it is that shame be studied phenomenologically, and PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE of what such a study would look like by examining shame in its relationship to forgiveness."
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "There has been a recent increase in qualitative research to help uncover process oriented aspects of performing psi. Informal reports have revealed a number of factors that seem to correlate with psychokinetic performance. This study used the phenomenological method to analyze the spontaneous and intentional experiences of eight participants to try to better understand its meaning and nature."
 

Subject(s): education

The article addresses the pedagogical implications of linguistically diverse students' experiences of loneliness in elementary school. The study presented was derived from a larger investigation of young children's lived experiences of loneliness.
 

Subject(s): medicine

Examines the role of leisure in the illness experience of men and women who have experienced a spinal cord injury (SCI). Discusses the relationship between SCI and contemporary discourse on constraints of leisure. Studies of the leisure experience of people with SCI, applying a narrative perspective on illness that is consistent with studies of the phenomenology of the body.
 

Subject(s): medicine,psychology

Explores suffering as experienced by both the patient and those around him. Looks at the role of hope and compassion, and provides some recommendations for doctors.
 

Subject(s): medicine,psychology

Examines how a group of working class people describes and experiences chronic pain. Employs interviews with people attending a pain management program, and describes ways of specifiying and legitimating pain in relation to mind and body using of narratives.
 

Subject(s): education

The aricle investigates how false memories are experienced phenomenologically. There is a review of evidence addressing the phenomenological experience of false memories and there are recommendations for exploring the phenomenology of false memories.
 

Subject(s): education,psychology

Rich in anecdote, but lacking in theoretical clarity, this essay's purposes are described by Latour as follows: "In the first part of my paper, I simply want to set up what I will call the paradox of the twin travellers and draw a few lessons from these little thought experiments to open a third avenue between subjective and objective time. In the second part, I want to use some results from science and technology studies to see the impact they could have on the machinery of space and time formation. Finally, at the end, I want to interrogate the link between formalism and timelessness and imagine some of the reasons that could have led Piaget to insist so much on forms." (Note also his puzzling critique of phenomenology as "subjectivist".)
 

Subject(s): education

A phenomenological exploration of the pedagogical phenomenon of disappointment --disappointment of the teacher in the student, and the student in him or herself.
 

Subject(s): medicine,psychology

The article examines the phenomenology of caregiving for persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in rural and isolated regions in northern Canada. The article highlights the neglected implications of the experience of personal grief and loss; suggesting a role for caregivers as one in which they become subsumed to the needs of the person in care.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "Unexpected but vivd and compelling memories are a wide-spread experience in late life. The experience has often been described in literature, and in recent years has been the object of extensive gerontological research under the label of 'life review'. Such memories often include a reversal of judgement about a past act, relationship, event, etc. What earlier was judged to be so is, in the retrospect of late life, judged not to have been so after all. This presents a question: which judgement --the earlier or the later-- has better epistemological credentials in such cases" Some obvious possible answers are considered and rejected. It would seem that the issue is not resolvable on epistemological grounds. A paralell dilemma seems to appear in other dimensions of experience. An example from aesthetic experience is briefly considered.
 

Subject(s): psychology

The article presents an empirical phenomenological inquiry into everyday experiences of daydreaming and points to the deficiency of theoretical literature in accounting for the ambiguity inherent in the phenomenon. The article estabiishes a link between representation of a mood and the biographical project of the individual. Daydreaming is presented as an act of consciousness.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "'Firebrand' focuses on the experience of being different and the struggles individuals face in coping with family, social, and political encroachments on identity and selfhood. [The firebrand is the person who recognizes what is natural, what is organic, what is alive and vital in life, the person who dares to live, to be, and to create, often in the face of intereference, rejection, deceit, and betrayal.] 'Firebrand' explores a series of challenging events and activities in my own life that evoked in me a determination to stay on the path of my own sense of meaning and truth even though I was being threatened by people in positions of power and by attempts to block, control, and restrain me."
 

Subject(s): psychology

Presents a study on hurt feeling through questionaires completed by 164 participants, who recounted situations where their feelings were hurt (victims accounts) or in which they hurt other person's feelings (perpetrator accounts). Analysis of the subjective experience which revealed that hurt feelings and characterized by undifferentiated negative affect; relation of victims' responses to the event to their attributes of the perpetrators actions.
 

Subject(s): education

Begins with a discussion of the character of the phenomenological method and its appropriateness to pedagogy (as opposed to education). Identifies 5 "indispenable aspects of the pedagogical situation" (e.g. a responsible adult "being over against the child who is not yet responsible".)
 

Subject(s): medicine

Describes Winnipeg women's experiences living with HIV/AIDS. Mandala model of health; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Health-related issues; Marital/partner relationships; child and family issues; Coping with HIV/AIDS.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Compares the experiences of men and women related to sexual coercion.
 

Subject(s): psychology

Abstract: "Seemingly incomparable, self and space are seen as related, both psychologically and ontologically: The experience of self as expansive space has distinct psychological benefits, which are explored through a clinical vignette. Next, the issue of the 'reality' of self is taken up. It is argued that the ontological status of self is indeterminate, which means that it is open to being that which it is considered to be. The powerful effect of such considerations on the being of self and its life experience are explored both through various philosophical conceptions of self (e.g., as extensionless point, intentional consciousness, or limitless space) and through the self-fulfilling prophecies which conceptions of self generate in people’s lives. Lastly, it is proposed that the consideration of self as space can open the door to a rich, expanded, connected, harmonious living."
 

Subject(s): education

Examines the reification of 'natural' death within bodies of literature identified within the medicalization of dying critique. Case study data concerning the experiences of the close companion of three people who died or came near to death; Phenomenology of suffering associated with the crtical illness or dealth of a close companion.
 

Subject(s): art

In this predominantly theoretical chapter, Sheets describes phenomenological notions of prereflective experience, and experiential space and time. She then applies these to the notion of dancing and dance appreciation.
 

Subject(s): psychology,religion

Abstract: "The unconscious can be understood in terms of a constriction of the possibilities of relatedness which occurs within a specific historical construction of the human context. Van den Berg argues that our technological world, in its having become secularized, has constellated a spiritual unconscious. In a similar vein [Vaclav] Havel suggests that respect for the miracle of being moves beyond technological rationality making possible the 'self-transcendence' sorely needed in the postmodern era. Van den Berg's and HJavel's theses are amplified in terms of an analysis of two popular films [The Fisher King, Grand Canyon]. These filsm present belief as a non-technological, non-functional disclosure of things. When we believe, we let things be miracles by respecting the obligations they place on us.
 

Subject(s): psychology,religion

The article develops a phenomenology of in-church worship and then compares how people experience worship in-church with worship via television. This research uses a semiotic phenomenological methodology to study in-depth the lived experience of in-church worship. It uses descriptions provided by participants to develop emergent themes and interpretation of in-church worship. Finally, it uses themes and interpretation to compare the experiences of worshipping in-church with worshipping by television.

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