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The Provocative Turn

The Provocative Turn Answerability: articulate the kind of ethical predicaments that are suggested in the study and what are the active normative responses (advice, policies, tactful practices, etc.). When a person is addressed by an other then he or she can turn away...

The Revocative Turn

The Revocative Turn Lived-throughness: Through anecdote and imagery, bring experience vividly into presence, making it immedately or unreflectively recongizable. The term “revoke” means to recall, to bring back, to rescind. Revoking our words means to go back on our...

The Vocative Turn

The Vocative Turn Tone: Practise a perceptive address to living meaning in the act of writing. The vocative method means that we need to address and that we need to be open to be addressed. The term “vocative” derives from vocare, to call; and from the root “voice”....

Thematic Reflection

Thematic Reflection Thematic analysis refers to the process of recovering structures of meanings that are embodied and dramatized in human experience represented in a text In human science research the notion of theme may best be understood by examining its...

Touching

Touching: The researcher-as-author is challenged to construct a phenomenological text that brings us in touch with the phenomenological gaze. The phenomenologist is a researcher, a seeker of meaning, someone who learns to “really” write in order to gain the experience...

Transcendental Phenomenology

Transcendental phenomenology Basic themes of transcendental phenomenology are “intentionality,” “eidetic reduction,” and “constitution of meaning.” By transcendental phenomenology we refer primarily to the work of Edmund Husserl and his early assistants Edith Stein...