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Exegetical Reflection

Exegetical reflection Exegetical reflection involves the critical, sensitive, and creative reading of related texts Exegetical reflection is the careful studying of related texts in search for insights or perspectives that may further your research. But exegetical...

Existential Phenomenology

Existential phenomenology Basic themes of existential phenomenology are “lived experience,” “modes of being,” “ontology,” and “lifeworld.” In his last work The Crisis of the European Sciences (1936), Husserl had already turned phenomenological analysis away from the...

Experiential Phenomenology

Phenomenology of practice Phenomenology of practice could also be called experiential phenomenology, lifeworld phenomenology, or applied phenomenology. Professional practitioners tend to be less interested in the philosophy of phenomenological method than its practice...

Experiential Sources

Prereflective experience is an inexhaustible source of lived meaning. Once we get deeply involved in a phenomenological topic we may make an amazing discovery: we seem to encounter instances and manifestations of our intrerest all around us. For example, when I was...

Gazing

Gazing: Phenomenological inquiry aims to reach the perspective of the gaze. The researcher/writer is someone who studies and practices writing in the hope to make something clear. Of course, a reluctant writer may need encouragement. And pedagogical encouragement by a...

Guided Existential Reflection

Guided Existential Reflection All phenomenological human science research efforts are really explorations into the structures of the human lifeworld, the lived world as experienced in everyday situations and relations. Four fundamental lifeworld themes (or...