scholarly journals Exploring Education Through Phenomenology: A Review of Gloria Dall’Alba’s (Ed.) Diverse Approaches

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Cocek

As educators, we tend to go about a typical day anticipating lessons, discussing pedagogical practices with colleagues, and engaging students with thoughtfully developed instruction. As attentive practitioners, we take a few minutes and reflect on the day’s proceedings and construct revised pedagogical strategies to better meet the needs of the students. However, what aspects of the pedagogical lifeworld would we think about if we decided to step back from the complexities, deadlines, and commitments that are part of the daily teaching routine, and take the time to really ponder pedagogy? I believe that Gloria Dall’Alba would encourage us to pick up her book and enter into the world of education as seen through a phenomenological perspective...

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Jonathan Silin

Hope is at the heart of the educational endeavour. Yet it is a challenge for educators to sustain a sense of hope in a worried world where terrorism, mass migrations, global warming and ultra-right political movements are on the rise. Acknowledging that hopefulness always involves risk, this article identifies three pedagogical practices which support potential and possibility in children: letting go of worry, engaging in the pleasures of forgetting, and learning to wait. Drawing on his work as an early childhood educator, AIDS advocate and caregiver to his aging parents, the author suggests that self-restraint – checking the impulse to fix and remediate – may be the most effective way to help others. Leaving aside excessive rules and abstract theories enables teachers to stay in the moment and in relation with others. Rejecting a blind hope that defends against remembering the ravages of personal and social histories, the author proposes embracing a modulated or educated hope (José Muñoz) that can keep us grounded in the real, even as we imagine the world differently.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Everton De Almeida Nunes ◽  
Gilson Pereira dos Santos Júnior ◽  
Dean Lima Carregosa

The pandemic has significantly impacted societies' ways of living around the world, reconfiguring everyday practices, including educational ones. Teachers had to become researchers open to experimentation with methodologies and technologies present in digital cultures and the formative experiences of the period became fertile fields of research for education. In this article, we share the methodological didactic findings found in the training process entitled "Use of Digital Interfaces for the Development of Pedagogical Practices in Times of Ubiquity", conducted by members of the Research Group on Education and Digital Cultures (E-CULT) at the Federal University of Sergipe in partnership with CESAD (UFS). It is a qualitative research with methodological approach in Research-Training in Cyberculture and dialogues with the foundations of multi-referentiality and complexity. The main methodological findings, which we analyze analytically, are: "Deconstruction of Hierarchies", "Insertion of Playfulness" and "Relay of Protagonism".


Author(s):  
Esther Ntuli ◽  
Arnold Nyarambi

The use and importance of technology in teaching and learning processes is well established in teacher training programs and teaching literature; however, integration of technology in meaningful ways remains a challenge. For teacher candidates to be able to effectively integrate technology in the classrooms, they need to experience meaningful technology pedagogical practices during teacher training. This chapter synthesizes well-established and relatively new technology pedagogical strategies that could be used with teacher candidates. The aim is to provide a summary of research-based strategies for teacher educators interested in improving technology integration in their teacher training programs.


Author(s):  
J. T. Torres

This chapter uses cognitive theory of information processing to demonstrate the role of visual learning in the context of reading and writing. According to the theory, individuals do not take a singular approach to processing information. Rather, they experience the world through visual and verbal channels. Information is then organized by working memory into more comprehensive models—the visuo-spatial sketchpad and the phonological loop. The author considers pedagogical strategies for writing instruction that rely on the multimedia principle, which states that our minds work best when learning combines the visual with the aural. The specific mission of the chapter is to show how the multimedia principle can benefit writing instruction in three different contexts: 1) reading and writing comprehension, 2) narrative writing, and 3) grammar usage. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that learning through images is not just a cultural phenomenon, but also a scientific one.


Author(s):  
Francisco Parrança da Silva ◽  
Bruna F. Batista

The education of global citizens prepared to live with each other and one another in a fair, respectful and sustainable way has taken a high place at the heart of education systems, politics and practices in different parts of the world. This document presents a systematic review, carried through a survey of a cohort of articles that portray pedagogical practices of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and/or Global Citizenship of children (three-to-thirteen) in school context. For this systematic review three search phases/stages were performed/took place: a) definition of keywords, b) definition of exclusion and inclusion criteria, and c) construction of three tables that will serve the purpose of data collection for later analysis. A descriptive analysis will be carried out as a way of assessing which pillars of Sustainable Development (SD), sustainability themes, pedagogical strategies and key competences for SD are most representative in reported practices in early childhood education.


Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir

The past 20 years have seen a shift in Icelandic photography from postmodern aesthetics towards a more phenomenological perspective that explores the relationship between subjective and affective truth on the one hand, and the outside world on the other hand. Rather than telling a story about the world as it is or as the photographer wants it to appear, the focus is on communicating with the world, and with the viewer. The photograph is seen as a creative medium that can be used to reflect how we experience and make sense of the world, or how we are and dwell in the world. In this paper, I introduce the theme of poetic storytelling in the context of contemporary photography in Iceland and other Nordic Countries. Poetic storytelling is a term I have been developing to describe a certain lyrical way to use a photograph as a narrative medium in reaction to the climate crisis and to a general lack of relation to oneself and to the world in times of increased acceleration in the society. In my article I analyze works by a few leading Icelandic photographers (Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Heiða Helgadóttir and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir) and put them in context with works by artists from Denmark (Joakim Eskildsen, Christina Capetillo and Astrid Kruse Jensen), Sweden (Helene Schmitz) and Finland (Hertta Kiiski) artists within the frame of poetic storytelling. Poetic storytelling is about a way to use a photograph as a narrative medium in an attempt to grasp a reality which is neither fully objective nor subjective, but rather a bit of both.


Author(s):  
Jorge Moreira ◽  
Fátima Alves ◽  
Ana Mendonça

Contemporary sciences and societies are facing several problems when analyzing the relationship between the natural and social dimensions of the world as reflected in the field of education. A serious effort must be urgently made to identify and tackle environmental problems in order to understand the world in which we live, in ways that are beneficial to present and future life on Earth. In this context, it is fundamental to create a new social order in a way that thinking “out of the box” can emerge with other orders closer to the diversity of life that coexist on the planet. Consequently, the awareness of the complexity and multidimensionality of our world requires the building of new forms of reflexivity and the development of critical thinking, reversing the still predominant characteristics of modern societies such as compartmentalization of knowledge, unhealthy competition, profit-seeking motivations, the exploitation of nature, and excessive individualist and anthropocentric approaches. In this regard, educational institutions play a relevant role in shaping future human actions to be more ethically harmonic (both environmentally and socially) as they are sites of knowledge production and sharing. Hence, it is crucial to rethink the entire educational paradigm and learning system (objectives, curricula, pedagogical strategies, instruments, competencies, school management framework, and even school buildings), because schools often function as “islands,” isolating students from nature, the community, and the “real world,” not preparing them to be well-informed and conscious citizens nor for the challenges that lie ahead. Some theoretical and practical alternatives are needed since schools actually embody the paradoxes and dilemmas of the current societal malaise but have not yet been able to deal with them or to provide adequate effective responses.


SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401986145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan ◽  
Benadjih Oiriddine Abdou ◽  
Jaana Kettunen ◽  
Sue Gregory

This article aims to identify different ways of using mobile devices in students’ learning in higher education. This qualitative research presents the findings from a phenomenographic research of students’ conceptions of mobile learning (m-learning) in higher education. A cohort of 16 students from four universities of Bangladesh took part in semi-structured interviews to explore their in-depth understandings and experiences of m-learning. The findings indicate that university students perceived five qualitatively different ways of using mobile devices in their learning: a medium for communication; a medium for management of learning materials; a tool for effective learning; a means for collaborative learning; and a means for development of new ideas. The findings of this research demonstrate students’ pedagogical understanding of using mobile devices in higher education. The outcomes of this research could play a crucial role in informing students on how they can use their mobile devices for learning purposes and providing educators with empirical evidence on students’ pedagogical practices of using mobile devices in other developing and more developed countries in the world.


2018 ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Kelcilene Gisela Persegueiro ◽  
José Euzébio de Oliveira Souza Aragão

Resumo O presente artigo traz os resultados de uma pesquisa que objetivou investigar os detalhes no cotidiano de uma sala de aula do Ensino Fundamental I com crianças de 6 e 7 anos ao vivenciarem o encontro do cinema na escola, bem como compreender que tipo de práticas pedagógicas podem ser construídas a partir da experiência do cinema e de que maneira podem promover/criar/afetar/transmitir/ transformar os alunos e estimular a produção de conhecimento, além de verificar como a relação das crianças com os desenhos animados, inspirados no Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo conduz a um aprendizado que permite uma leitura de mundo no qual as experiências prévias das crianças somam-se à própria experiência do cinema. No que tange à metodologia, trata-se de uma pesquisa que está inserida na abordagem qualitativa, com a utilização das pesquisas bibliográfica, documental e pesquisa-ação. Os dados foram analisados por meio da análise de conteúdo trazida por Bardin (1979). Os resultados e as conclusões/considerações finais apontam que o cinema na escola possibilita a construção de práticas pedagógicas como formação humana dos educandos que estão em contato com o mundo, para provocar movimentos de apropriação, revelação e criação, tecendo elo entre o cinema, a educação e o cinema na escola, tido como potencialidade para se pensar a educação no país. Palavras-chave: Cinema. Escola. Práticas pedagógicas. Produção de conhecimento. Educação. Pedagogical practices from the cinema as an experience without a strength shirt AbstractThis article presents the results of a research that aimed to investigate the details in the daily life of a classroom with children between 6 and 7 years from “Ensino Fundamental I” when experiencing the meeting of the cinema in the school. Moreover, this paper intends to understand what kind of pedagogical practices can be built from the experience of cinema, and how this experience can promote /create/affect/transmit/transform students and stimulate the production of knowledge. We also investigate how the relationship between children and cartoons, inspired by the Pica Pau Amarelo Site, leads to a learning process that allows a reading of the world in which the children’s previous experiences are added to the experience of the cinema itself. Regarding the methodology, it is a research that is inserted in the qualitative approach, with the use of bibliographical, documentary and action research. The data were analyzed through the analysis of content brought by (BARDIN, 1979). The results / conclusions / or the final considerations point out that the cinema in the school makes possible the construction of pedagogical practices, like human formation of the students who are in contact with the world to provoke movements of appropriation, revelation and creation, building a link between the cinema and education and cinema in the school. This process reveals potentialities to think about education in the country. Keywords: Cinema. School. Pedagogical practices. Knowledge production. Education. Prácticas pedagógicas a partir del cine como una experiencia sin camisa de fuerza Resumen El presente artículo trae los resultados de una investigación que objetivó investigar los detalles en el cotidiano de un aula con niños, entre 6 y 7 años de la Enseñanza Fundamental I al vivenciar el encuentro del cine en la escuela y comprender qué tipo de prácticas pedagógicas pueden ser construidas a partir de la experiencia del cine y de qué manera pueden promover / crear / afectar / transmitir / transformar a los alumnos y estimular la producción de conocimiento; ver cómo la relación de los niños con los dibujos animados, inspirados en el Sitio del Pica Pau Amarillo conduce a un aprendizaje que permite una lectura de mundo en el que las experiencias previas de los niños se suman a la propia experiencia del cine. En lo que se refiere a la metodología, se trata de una investigación que está inserta en el abordaje cualitativo, con la utilización de las Investigaciones bibliográfica, documental e investigación-acción. Los datos fueron analizados por medio del análisis de contenido traído por (BARDIN, 1979). Los resultados / conclusiones / o las consideraciones finales apuntan que el cine en la escuela posibilita la construcción de prácticas pedagógicas, como formación humana de los educandos que están en contacto con el mundo para provocar movimientos de apropiación, revelación y creación, tejiendo el eslabón entre el cine y el cine educación y cine en la escuela, tenido como potencial para pensar la educación en el país. Palabras clave: Cinema. Escuela. Prácticas pedagógicas. Producción de conocimiento. Educación.


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