1.Theoretical Orientation Interpretivist Phenomenology

1.Theoretical Orientation Interpretivist Phenomenology

1. 2. Definitions

   • 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)

2. 4. Contributors to and Significance of impact on the field of curriculum

   • Reconceptualist Movement
   • language, temporality, consciousness
   • teaching, reading
   • Greene, Grumt, Aoki, Pinar, Langeveld, Raffel, Moore, Karatheodoris, Allen, Bonner, Michalko, Vangie Kelpin, Jardine, van Manen

3. 5. Reference List See Attached

4. 6. Abstracts

   • 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.

5. 7. Outline - See Attached

6. 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.

7. 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)
   • Kant, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Sarttre, Gramci, Polanyi, Habermans, van Manen (Pinar, 1995)
   • Alfred Schutz (1899 - 1959) (Bryman 2012; Fereday,2006)