Transformative Phenomenology
Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice
Contributions by Gloria L. Córdova, Lucy Dinwiddie, David B. Haddad, Steven C. Jeddeloh, Marc J. LaFountain, Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Adair Linn Nagata, Jeffrey L. Nonemaker, Bernie Novokowsky, Linda Nugent, George Psathas, David Rehorick, Sandra K. Simpson, Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Dudley Tower Edited by David Rehorick
Publication date:
19 June 2008Length of book:
256 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
240x161mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739124116
Transformative Phenomenology captures the influence of phenomenology and hermeneutics on non-university-based scholar-practitioners who completed their doctoral education in later life, thus blending their workplace experiences with their intellectual interests. Contributions from seasoned university-based scholars expands our understanding of phenomenological inquiry in fresh ways. The concept of "transformative phenomenology" springs from the long-term teaching and research experiences of David Rehorick and Valerie Bentz, the book's co-editors.
This book is a masterful example of the transformative potential of phenomenology as a methodology and a way of living one's life open to possibility. These scholar practitioners bring the reader inside ordinary lifeworld experiences such as illness and personal trauma, corporate environments, cultural identity, artists and jazz musicians to reveal the extraordinary understandings to which their writing gives voice. As a phenomenologist, I highly recommend this book for an accessible entree into the methods of phenomenology, based on Husserlian and Schutzian approaches. Be prepared to experience your own transformation and 'possibilizing' as you read and engage with it!