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Writing our lived experience: Beyond the (Pale) hermeneutic?
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Writing our lived experience: Beyond the (Pale) hermeneutic?

D.R. Geelan and P.C. Taylor
EJSE: Electronic Journal of Science Education, Vol.5(4)
2001
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Abstract

In this paper, we make a case for an alternative epistemology of research based on the hermeneutic-phenomenology of Max van Manen (1990). This interpretive approach to understanding the nature of a social phenomenon involves the researcher in making explicit the meaning of a particular lived experience, and generating a pedagogical thoughtfulness in his or her readers. The aim of hermeneutic-phenomenology is to create a dialogical text which resonates with the experiences of readers while, at the same time, evoking a critical reflexivity about their own pedagogical actions.

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