by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Insight Cultivating Reflection
Insight-cultivating Reflection Insight cultivators are ideas or thematic insights gleaned from philosophic and other sources of the human sciences. They aid in the reflective interpretive process. Insight cultivators are often found in the reflective writings of...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistic Reflection
Linguistic Reflection It is sometimes surprising how much language can teach us if we allow ourselves to be attentive to even the most common of expressions associated with the phenomenon we wish to pursue. The reason is that sayings, idiomatic phrases, proverbs, and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Macro Thematic Reflection
Macro-thematic Reflection In the wholistic reading approach we attend to the text as a whole. Expressing the fundamental or overall meaning of a text is an interpretive act. Different readers may discern different thematic meanings. And no one interpretation is ever...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Methods Procedures
Doing phenomenology involves two types of inquiry activities: empirical and reflective methods. In this inquiry model we are making a distinction between methodology (the reductio and the vocatio) and methods (empirical and reflective methods). Strictly speaking, the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Micro Thematic Reflection
Micro-thematic Reflection Generally we can distinguish two types of micro thematic reflection: (1) the selective or highlighting approach; and (2) the detailed or line-by-line approach. In the selective or highlighting approach, we ask: “are there any phrases that...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
