Psyd16 Midterm
PSYD16 Midterm
QUESTION 2:
Van Manen quotes Dilthey’s definition of lived experience, which is “our immediate, pre-reflective consciousness of life: a reflexive or self-given awareness which is, as awareness, unaware of itself.” It is raw and untouched by presumptions and speculation. * Van Manen constantly emphasizes how phenomenological human science begins with and eventually returns to lived experience. Hence, its great importance. * According to van Manen, phenomenology, which is the study of lived experiences, has the aim of transforming lived experience into a textual expression of its essence. This makes the text a reflexive re-living of the lived experience. * Phenomenology is concerned with the nature of the phenomenon “as meaningfully experienced.” * Lived experience has a structural nexus that gives the experience its central idea/ dominant theme. Different experiences may have a similar core idea/ theme behind them. * The phenomena of lived life does not come with one generalizable meaning. We assign meaning to it. Therefore, it is culturally-affected and subjective.
Van Manen suggests that to study lived experience, you must first identify your interest; you must ask yourself what human phenomenon is most intriguing to you/ you are most curious about. True phenomenological questioning will not be possible without first identifying your interest. Second, you must question what that phenomenon is” really” like. To truly question something is to interrogate something from the heart of our existence. However, Van Manen cautions the reader to be mindful of the original question and be “steadfastly oriented” to the lived experience that you were interested in in the first place.
Van Manen then suggests some ways to collect experiential material from others: searching idiomatic phrases (ex: Every child needs a home.), obtaining experiential descriptions from other, written lived-experience descriptions, interviewing, and
QUESTION 2:
Van Manen quotes Dilthey’s definition of lived experience, which is “our immediate, pre-reflective consciousness of life: a reflexive or self-given awareness which is, as awareness, unaware of itself.” It is raw and untouched by presumptions and speculation. * Van Manen constantly emphasizes how phenomenological human science begins with and eventually returns to lived experience. Hence, its great importance. * According to van Manen, phenomenology, which is the study of lived experiences, has the aim of transforming lived experience into a textual expression of its essence. This makes the text a reflexive re-living of the lived experience. * Phenomenology is concerned with the nature of the phenomenon “as meaningfully experienced.” * Lived experience has a structural nexus that gives the experience its central idea/ dominant theme. Different experiences may have a similar core idea/ theme behind them. * The phenomena of lived life does not come with one generalizable meaning. We assign meaning to it. Therefore, it is culturally-affected and subjective.
Van Manen suggests that to study lived experience, you must first identify your interest; you must ask yourself what human phenomenon is most intriguing to you/ you are most curious about. True phenomenological questioning will not be possible without first identifying your interest. Second, you must question what that phenomenon is” really” like. To truly question something is to interrogate something from the heart of our existence. However, Van Manen cautions the reader to be mindful of the original question and be “steadfastly oriented” to the lived experience that you were interested in in the first place.
Van Manen then suggests some ways to collect experiential material from others: searching idiomatic phrases (ex: Every child needs a home.), obtaining experiential descriptions from other, written lived-experience descriptions, interviewing, and