Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Human Science; Chapter 2 Turning to the Nature of Lived Experience; Chapter 3 Investigating Experience as We Live It; Chapter 4 Hermeneutic Phenomenological Reflection; Chapter 5 Hermeneutic Phenomenological Writing; Chapter 6 Maintaining a Strong and Oriented Relation; Chapter 7 Balancing the Research Context by Considering Parts and Whole;

About the Author

Max van Manen is emeritus Professor in Research Methods, Pedagogy and Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the leading proponent of the practice and meaning of phenomenological inquiry in pedagogy, psychology, health science, and the human sciences. He is author of numerous books on phenomenology and on pedagogy, including Pedagogical Tact , (2015) Phenomenology of Practice (2014), The Tact of Teaching (1991), and The Tone of Teaching (2002) and has had his books translated into nine languages. He has also authored over 100 articles and chapters on pedagogy, health science, qualitative research methods, and phenomenology. He founded the journal Phenomenology and Pedagogy and developed the website PhenomenologyOnline. He is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Curriculum Division of the American Educational Research Association among numerous other awards and distinctions.