Max Van Manen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Van Manen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Manen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN MANEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing
Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing to provide an eloquent, accessible, and detailed approach to practicing phenomenology. Phenomenology of practice refers to the meaning of doing phenomenology on experiences that are of significance to those in professional practice such as psychology, health care, education, and in contexts of ordinary …
Rebuttal: Doing Phenomenology on the Things
This rebuttal responds to the article "Getting it quite wrong" (published in this journal issue of QHR). My work is described as "amassing experiential descriptions," simply aiming to "reproduce the original experience unaltered," naively claiming "that the fundamental question of phenomenology is to understand what it is like to have this or that experience" and other such injudicious points. I take issue with these claims. Husserl is quoted as …
Rebuttal Rejoinder: Present IPA For What It Is-Interpretative Psychological Analysis
I appreciate this opportunity to join Jonathan Smith in his rebuttal to my discussion of the meaning and method of his interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Different forms of inquiry make unique contributions to our understanding of professional practices of psychology, education, pedagogy, nursing, medicine, and other health sciences. So, it should be worthwhile to understand the nature of these potential contributions and their metho…
Serendipitous Insights and Kairos Playfulness
Phenomenology, peekaboo, and play are notions that may not tempt the reader to take a paper very seriously. Phenomenology is a philosophical form of qualitative research that is guided more often by the fortuitous serendipity of contemplative insights than by the rationality of reproducible social science procedures. Peekaboo is an infant game of the eyes that hardly seems worth addressing in a self-respectful research journal, and the topic of p…
But Is It Phenomenology
Phenomenology in Its Original Sense
In this article, I try to think through the question, "What distinguishes phenomenology in its original sense?" My intent is to focus on the project and methodology of phenomenology in a manner that is not overly technical and that may help others to further elaborate on or question the singular features that make phenomenology into a unique qualitative form of inquiry. I pay special attention to the notion of "lived" in the phenomenological term…
Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing
Max van Manen offers an extensive exploration of phenomenological traditions and methods for the human sciences. It is his first comprehensive statement of phenomenological thought and research in over a decade. Phenomenology of practice refers to the meaning and practice of phenomenology in professional contexts such as psychology, education, and health care, as well as to the practice of phenomenological methods in contexts of everyday living. …
Researching Lived Experience, Second Edition: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy
Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense, the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First publi…
The Pedagogy of Momus Technologies: Facebook, Privacy, and Online Intimacy
Through cable and wireless connections at home and at work, through Wi-Fi networks and wireless spots in hotels, coffee shops, and town squares, we are indeed connected to each other. But what is the phenomenology of this connection? Technologies of expression such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social networking technologies increasingly become like Momus windows of Greek mythology, revealing one's innermost thoughts for all to see. Th…
The Phenomenology of Space in Writing Online
In this paper we explore the phenomenon of writing online. We ask, ‘Is writing by means of online technologies affected in a manner that differs significantly from the older technologies of pen on paper, typewriter, or even the word processor in an off‐line environment?’ In writing online, the author is engaged in a spatial complexity of physical, temporal, imaginal, and virtual experience: the writing space, the space of the text, cyber space, e…
Writing Qualitatively, or the Demands of Writing
Have you ever said this or heard someone say this: "I have done all of my data analysis- I just have to write it down." Or, "I just have to write it up"? I will suggest that within the context of phenomenological inquiry, it is not necessarily helpful to try to assist researchers learning "how to write down" their reflections or "how to write up" their results. What should be more helpful is learning "how to write." Qualitative writing may be see…
Care-as-Worry, or “Don’t Worry, be Happy”
Care, or caring, is one of the central concepts in North American health science and nursing theories. Yet, experiential accounts of caring show dimensions of meaning that have received little attention in the literature. The author compares the meanings of the terms care and caring with their counterparts in other languages. He explores the significance of care-as worry embedded in lived relations of caring and relates these concepts to ethical …
The pathic principle of pedagogical language
Introduction: Pedagogical task of teaching
Transdisciplinarity and the New Production of Knowledge
Modalities of Body Experience in Illness and Health
How do we experience our body in illness or health? This is a question that can easily comprise a book-length study. In this article, a selection of basic distinctions is explored that may be especially appropriate for pursuing this question. Increasingly the health science professional is becoming aware that people require not only health care assistance, surgical treatment, or pharmaceutical treatment, but that the professional be much more inv…
From Meaning to Method
This article explores aspects of the relation between language, meaning, and method in human science research. Phenomenology poses two distinct challenges: the thematic and the expressive dimensions of inquiry, which have implications for semantic and mantic, discursive and nondiscursive understanding. When we turn from thematic meaning to expressive meaning, then the question we ask turns from 'What does the text speak about?' to 'How does the t…
On the Epistemology of Reflective Practice
Schön (1987) has suggested that professional education undervalues practical knowledge and grants privileged status to intellectual scientific and rational knowledge forms that may only be marginally relevant to practical acting. This is not just an issue of sociology of knowledge. The literature of teaching and teacher education has shown that professional practices of educating cannot be properly understood unless we are willing to conceive of …
The Pain of Science: Rejoining Fenstermacher's Response
There is a way of granting praise (there is much to applaud in the provocative article) and there is a way of repealing that praise (van Manen's noble and lofty aspirations for pedagogy). Yet, am pleased that Gary Fenstermacher has cared to comment on Pedagogy, Virtue, and Narrative Identity in Teaching. My intent with this paper was to suggest that Canadian and U.S. educators may benefit from understanding and discussing the cross-cultural diffe…
Toward a Discourse of Heteronomy
Can Teaching Be Taught? or Are Real Teachers Found or Made
Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research
1990). Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 29, Teacher as Researcher, pp. 152-157
By the Light of Anecdote
In 1983, when the Dutch author Lize Stilma was invited to pub lish some of her wonderfully evocative narratives in Phenorne nology + Pedagogy, she was pleased that the journal would translate and publish her stories. However, she did not like the suggestion that her stories would be gathered in a section under the title "Anecdotes." Although she did not say as much, the word anecdote seemed perhaps too plain, too everyday, too ver nacular, too lo…
Liber Amicorum
Liber Amicorum (Friendship Book), is a col lection of articles brought together on the invitation of his former students and colleagues, who have written the introductory article for this issue.The various contributors to this issue offer their texts in a gesture of deeply felt friendship to Ton Beekman, who they wish well in his early retirement.Professor Beekman was, and is, not only a friend to many of us, he has also been a teacher to us.And …
We Need to Show Our Human Science Practice is a Relation of Pedagogy
Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical
(1977). Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 205-228
Phenomenology in Its Original Sense
In this article, I try to think through the question, "What distinguishes phenomenology in its original sense?" My intent is to focus on the project and methodology of phenomenology in a manner that is not overly technical and that may help others to further elaborate on or question the singular features that make phenomenology into a unique qualitative form of inquiry. I pay special attention to the notion of "lived" in the phenomenological term…
Practicing Phenomenological Writing
From Meaning to Method
This article explores aspects of the relation between language, meaning, and method in human science research. Phenomenology poses two distinct challenges: the thematic and the expressive dimensions of inquiry, which have implications for semantic and mantic, discursive and nondiscursive understanding. When we turn from thematic meaning to expressive meaning, then the question we ask turns from 'What does the text speak about?' to 'How does the t…
But Is It Phenomenology
Modalities of Body Experience in Illness and Health
How do we experience our body in illness or health? This is a question that can easily comprise a book-length study. In this article, a selection of basic distinctions is explored that may be especially appropriate for pursuing this question. Increasingly the health science professional is becoming aware that people require not only health care assistance, surgical treatment, or pharmaceutical treatment, but that the professional be much more inv…
Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research
1990). Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 29, Teacher as Researcher, pp. 152-157
Researching Lived Experience, Second Edition: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy
Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense, the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First publi…
Writing Qualitatively, or the Demands of Writing
Have you ever said this or heard someone say this: "I have done all of my data analysis- I just have to write it down." Or, "I just have to write it up"? I will suggest that within the context of phenomenological inquiry, it is not necessarily helpful to try to assist researchers learning "how to write down" their reflections or "how to write up" their results. What should be more helpful is learning "how to write." Qualitative writing may be see…
The Phenomenology of Space in Writing Online
In this paper we explore the phenomenon of writing online. We ask, ‘Is writing by means of online technologies affected in a manner that differs significantly from the older technologies of pen on paper, typewriter, or even the word processor in an off‐line environment?’ In writing online, the author is engaged in a spatial complexity of physical, temporal, imaginal, and virtual experience: the writing space, the space of the text, cyber space, e…
The pathic principle of pedagogical language
Edifying theory: Serving the good
1982). Edifying theory: Serving the good. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 21, Curriculum Theory, pp. 44-49
The Pedagogy of Momus Technologies: Facebook, Privacy, and Online Intimacy
Through cable and wireless connections at home and at work, through Wi-Fi networks and wireless spots in hotels, coffee shops, and town squares, we are indeed connected to each other. But what is the phenomenology of this connection? Technologies of expression such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social networking technologies increasingly become like Momus windows of Greek mythology, revealing one's innermost thoughts for all to see. Th…
Rebuttal: Doing Phenomenology on the Things
This rebuttal responds to the article "Getting it quite wrong" (published in this journal issue of QHR). My work is described as "amassing experiential descriptions," simply aiming to "reproduce the original experience unaltered," naively claiming "that the fundamental question of phenomenology is to understand what it is like to have this or that experience" and other such injudicious points. I take issue with these claims. Husserl is quoted as …
Serendipitous Insights and Kairos Playfulness
Phenomenology, peekaboo, and play are notions that may not tempt the reader to take a paper very seriously. Phenomenology is a philosophical form of qualitative research that is guided more often by the fortuitous serendipity of contemplative insights than by the rationality of reproducible social science procedures. Peekaboo is an infant game of the eyes that hardly seems worth addressing in a self-respectful research journal, and the topic of p…
Phenomenological Pedagogy
Rebuttal Rejoinder: Present IPA For What It Is-Interpretative Psychological Analysis
I appreciate this opportunity to join Jonathan Smith in his rebuttal to my discussion of the meaning and method of his interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Different forms of inquiry make unique contributions to our understanding of professional practices of psychology, education, pedagogy, nursing, medicine, and other health sciences. So, it should be worthwhile to understand the nature of these potential contributions and their metho…
Introduction: Pedagogical task of teaching
Transdisciplinarity and the New Production of Knowledge
Rebuttal to Larkins' Critique
Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical
(1977). Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 205-228
Reconceptionalist Curriculum Thought: A Review of Recent Literature
Phenomenological Pedagogy
Edifying theory: Serving the good
1982). Edifying theory: Serving the good. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 21, Curriculum Theory, pp. 44-49
Invitation to Phenomenology + Pedagogy
On Pedagogic Hope
On Pedagogic HopeIn In the Nuclear Shadow' one of the children, a ten-year old, speaks of a recurring dream.A nightmare of "a big black and white cloud and then all fire."And in this hell of heat she sees shadows moving, the faces of her mother and father.What do we say to children whose nightmares are real?It is the way children experience our age
Those that understood him, smil’d at one another and shooke their heads: But for mine own part, it was Greeke to me
Editing
Now that the whole issue has been pasted up, ready for the brownline (there are sighs of relief; another one ready for the press; a fine issue once again), a few words from the editor.In this case it is the last minute shower before the guests arrive
Practicing Phenomenological Writing
Phenomenology of the Novel, or How Do Novels Teach
Liber Amicorum
Liber Amicorum (Friendship Book), is a col lection of articles brought together on the invitation of his former students and colleagues, who have written the introductory article for this issue.The various contributors to this issue offer their texts in a gesture of deeply felt friendship to Ton Beekman, who they wish well in his early retirement.Professor Beekman was, and is, not only a friend to many of us, he has also been a teacher to us.And …
We Need to Show Our Human Science Practice is a Relation of Pedagogy
By the Light of Anecdote
In 1983, when the Dutch author Lize Stilma was invited to pub lish some of her wonderfully evocative narratives in Phenorne nology + Pedagogy, she was pleased that the journal would translate and publish her stories. However, she did not like the suggestion that her stories would be gathered in a section under the title "Anecdotes." Although she did not say as much, the word anecdote seemed perhaps too plain, too everyday, too ver nacular, too lo…
Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research
1990). Beyond assumptions: Shifting the limits of action research. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 29, Teacher as Researcher, pp. 152-157
Can Teaching Be Taught? or Are Real Teachers Found or Made
Toward a Discourse of Heteronomy
The Pain of Science: Rejoining Fenstermacher's Response
There is a way of granting praise (there is much to applaud in the provocative article) and there is a way of repealing that praise (van Manen's noble and lofty aspirations for pedagogy). Yet, am pleased that Gary Fenstermacher has cared to comment on Pedagogy, Virtue, and Narrative Identity in Teaching. My intent with this paper was to suggest that Canadian and U.S. educators may benefit from understanding and discussing the cross-cultural diffe…
On the Epistemology of Reflective Practice
Schön (1987) has suggested that professional education undervalues practical knowledge and grants privileged status to intellectual scientific and rational knowledge forms that may only be marginally relevant to practical acting. This is not just an issue of sociology of knowledge. The literature of teaching and teacher education has shown that professional practices of educating cannot be properly understood unless we are willing to conceive of …
From Meaning to Method
This article explores aspects of the relation between language, meaning, and method in human science research. Phenomenology poses two distinct challenges: the thematic and the expressive dimensions of inquiry, which have implications for semantic and mantic, discursive and nondiscursive understanding. When we turn from thematic meaning to expressive meaning, then the question we ask turns from 'What does the text speak about?' to 'How does the t…
Modalities of Body Experience in Illness and Health
How do we experience our body in illness or health? This is a question that can easily comprise a book-length study. In this article, a selection of basic distinctions is explored that may be especially appropriate for pursuing this question. Increasingly the health science professional is becoming aware that people require not only health care assistance, surgical treatment, or pharmaceutical treatment, but that the professional be much more inv…
Transdisciplinarity and the New Production of Knowledge
Care-as-Worry, or “Don’t Worry, be Happy”
Care, or caring, is one of the central concepts in North American health science and nursing theories. Yet, experiential accounts of caring show dimensions of meaning that have received little attention in the literature. The author compares the meanings of the terms care and caring with their counterparts in other languages. He explores the significance of care-as worry embedded in lived relations of caring and relates these concepts to ethical …
The pathic principle of pedagogical language
Introduction: Pedagogical task of teaching
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (5 works) · Political science (5 works)