March 20 - 21, 2006 Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway

Objectives:

The seminar explores recent development within hermeneutic phenomenological methodology by introducing the students to classical phenomenological texts as well as to student texts and preliminary writing exercises. The main aim is to give the opportunity to discover and develop meaning by experiencing and interpreting the 'world' and the human relation to the world complex and heterogeneously; in a pathic/gnostic, enactive/receptive way. This, in order to get closer to an understanding of what is the meaning and significance of lived experience and lived meaning.   

The seminar will be taught as workshop/dialogic lecture as these are the methods that seem to promote learning to practice phenomenology. Much of the material in this seminar is based directly on the work and writings of Dr. Max van Manen.

Timetable: (Note: The schedule and materials provided here form only a rough outline of the discussions and interactions taking place in this course.)

Monday, March 20

• Introduction to Phenomenology - Handshake Exercise (into_to_phenom.ppt)
• The Utrecht School
• Break
• Example Study: Seeing Disability Pedagogically - The Lived Experience of Disability in the Pedagogical Encounter (Seeing_Disability_Pedagogically.ppt)
• The reduction (reduction.ppt)

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

• Review and introduction to the second day
• Reflective/Empirical methods (reflection_empirical.ppt)
• Break
• Phenomenological Writing (anecdotes.ppt)
• Philosophical Implications (philosophical_implications.ppt)
• Where to go from here (in your research)?

Instructors

Dr. Norm Friesen, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver norm_friesen@sfu.ca

1.amanuensis Tone Sævi, Høgskolen i Bergen tsev@hib.no Høgskolen i Bergen. Haugeveien 28, 5005 Bergen. 55587819 /92688116

Curriculum Vitae for all three will be forwarded if desirable

Readings

Classic hermeneutic phenomenological texts

Langeveld, M.J. (1983). The "Secret Place" in the Life of the Child. In: Phenomenology and Pedagogy , Vol.1, No.2, pp. 181 - 189.

Van Lennep, D.J. (1969). The Hotel Room. In: Persoon en wereld: Bijdragen tot de fenomenologische psychologie . Utrecht: Bejleveld, pp.33 -40. Translated by Joseph J. Kockelmans.   

Texts on methodology

Merleau - Ponty, Maurice (1945/2002). The Phenomenology of Perception . London/New York: Routledge Classics. (Introduction)

Saevi, Tone (2005). Seeing Disability Pedagogically. The Lived Experience of Disability in the Pedagogical Encounter. Doctoral dissertation . University of Bergen: Faculty of Psychology. (Chapter 4 + 5).

Van Manen, Max (2001). Professional Practice and 'Doing Phenomenology' In: S. Kay Toombs (ed.). Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine (Philosophy and Medicine Series). Dordrecht: Kluwer Press, pp. 457 - 474.

Van Manen, Max (2002). Writing in the Dark . Ontario: The Althouse Press. Kap.1, pp. 1 - 8. + kap.16, pp. 237 - 252.  

Student texts

Friesen, Norm (2002). Is there a body in this Class? In: Van Manen, Max (2002). Writing in the Dark. Ontario: The Althouse Press. Pp.223-236

Gagnon, Rochelle (2003). Understanding Depression http://phenomenologyonline.com/articles/gagnon.html  

Saevi, Tone (2003). The Experience of being seen for Students with Disability . http://phenomenologyonline.com/articles/saevi.html