Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) Fall, 2014 - Theoretical Underpinnings Mind Map on 1.Theoretical
Orientation
Interpretivist
Phenomenology, created by Cecelia Price on 15/10/2013.
Interpretivist
Epistemology -
social sci. differs
from natural
sci....empathetic
understanding of
human action
(Bryman, 2012)
Phenomenology - "a
philosophy concerned with
the questions of how
individuals make sense of
the world....attempting to see
things from a person's
point of view. (Bryman, 2012)
4. Contributors to and
Significance of impact
on the field of
curriculum
Alfred Schutz.
phenomenology and
research methodology for
information behavior
reserach by T.D. Wilson.
The article is an overview
of phenomenology as a
method and methodology
according to Schutz.
The social construction of
reality: a treatise in the
sociology of knowledge by
Berger and Luckmann asserts
that nothing is understood as
a person's biological
constitution but as social
constructs and how
phenomena are perceived.
Brain time and
phenomenological time by
Rick Grush discusses the
brain functions associated
with phenomenological
experiences.
Releasing the
Imagination by
Greene addresses
the role of
imagination in
learning
Generations: Reconceptualist
curriculum theory and teacher
education by Grumet addresses
the extent to which teachers are
prepared to teach aesthetically
and phenomenologically.
7. Outline -
See Attached
8. Purpose
of Paper
A literature review -
history of
phenomenology and
the major contributors
in the field of curricular
phenomenology. I
hope, through the lit.
review to identify a
niche related to
teacher preparation
from which I may
continue further study
at a later time.
3. Theoretical Origins,
Description of the
Field, Contributors
Outside of Education
Max Weber - Verstehen (Understanding) "science
which attempts the interpretive understanding of
social action in order to arrive at causal
explanations of its course and effects (bryman,
2013)