The Phenomenological Interview as Existential Communication: Researching and Teaching the Multiple Realities of Education

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Abstract

The paper presents and discusses the combination and expansion of the phenomenological interview (Bevan, 2014) and existential communication (Kolbe, 2016) for both researching and teaching the multiple realities of education. It presents a theoretically grounded, nuanced way of systematizing experiences along rich descriptions of interviewees' lifeworlds, horizons and ends-in-view. It explicates how those involved in education derive actionable meaning from their experiences and it captures first-order constructions as a basis for their future actions. This lens provides a tool for scholarly inquiry that affirms multiple realities. It has also been developed for teaching student teachers across two universities in different countries.

Author

• Christine Dr. Becks, University Duisburg - Essen