The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning

Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education

• Author(s): Katherine Greenberg, Brian Sohn, Neil Greenberg, Howard R Pollio, Sandra Thomas, John Smith,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 222
• ISBN_10: 1351245899
  ISBN_13: 9781351245890
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Education / Teaching / General , Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects , Education / Schools / Levels / Higher ,

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This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction, and students’ reflections, this book presents evidence for the claim that the worldviews of both teachers and learners affect the way that they present and receive knowledge. By taking a unique phenomenological approach to pedagogical issues in higher education, this volume demonstrates that a truly transformative learning process relies on an engagement between consciousness and the world it ‘intends’.