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<p>Here I outline some of the key readings I engage in the development of my notes. For now I'll order this by general themes.</p>
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<p>My own background and interest is in hermeneutic phenomenology which merges two philosophical traditions: phenomenology and hermeneutics. Phenomenology is a philosophical movement interested in investigating the relation between human beings and their world. We can appreciate the significance of this by considering the relation between theory and reality, which we can succinctly state as that relation between subject and object.</p>
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<p>Hermeneutic phenomenology investigates the human-world relation in terms of how the world can show itself to human beings and become meaningful. The main concern here is with interpretation and meaning, or in other words the general idea of world disclosure. Hermeneutics is a traditional philosophical discipline related to the discovery of meaning.</p>
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# Welcome

![Philosophy as Education](assets/images/logo/PHASED_4.gif)


Welcome to PHASED: _Philosophy as Education_. This is my fledgling _digital garden_, or in other words, my public thinking space in which I develop and publish my notes (or seedlings). So, all you read in this garden is dynamic thought in process - an open and evolving conversation which will someday serve as the fruits for my publications, either here in this digital sphere, and/or in the academic and public space.

![Education Studies](assets/images/edstudies_shootleaves.gif)

## About the Garden
My general area of interest is higher education but more specifically a deeper appreciation of Education Studies, i.e., the study of education as the relation between philosophy of education, educational science, and pedagogy.

Four prominent areas are worth mentioning: 
1. _The academic experience of higher education_: A (post-)critical take on the university lifeworld and the student experience. I am particularly interested in depicting the development of students' hermeneutic experiences of understanding.
2. _Social efficiency and instrumentalism in (higher) education_: A (post-)critical perspective (ontology, phenomenology, and philosophical hermeneutics).
3. _Liberal education and the curriculum_: What is the desired/required form of a liberal education for our times? What is powerful knowledge within the curriculum?
4. _The human-technology relation_: One can speak of technology in a twofold manner: 1. The metaphysical condition which evidences human technological consciousness of the everyday; and 2. The condition of the interface between human actors and the products of digital technology/culture -- in other words, _what things do_ as humans co-evolve with technological artefacts.

## Contact
- Email: joey(at)philosophy(dot)education
- [Twitter](@joeyphased)
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## Working in the Open
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## About the logo

The logo was designed and created by [Mairead McKay](http://maireadmckay.com/) (website to appear soon). It is an abstract design centred on the idea of the butterfly within the following poem[^1]:

![Happiness is like a butterfly](assets/images/HappinessButtefly.png)

I appreciate this poem as the centrepiece to my thought and as one of the ways around which my understanding develops. As per the beauty of poetry, I always see something new in this text. This is education as _poetic dwelling_, or as Hans-Georg Gadamer puts it, a _living in poetry_: 

![[quotes.education#^living-poetry]]

So, rather than what is the typical consciousness of a modern education, i.e., as something which remains within our grasp and control, I understand education as given, or in other words, as a _gift_. The beauty of education is as an unforeseen event which happens to us, often in surprising ways. As Gadamer would say, it is the experience which _pulls us up short_.

![Philosophy as Education](assets/images/logo/PECombined_3.gif)

[^1]: This poem, erroneously attributed to both Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne, was written by the social worker, author and speaker, J. Richard Lessor. Although it doesn't appear in any of Lessor's books, it was published on motivational posters in the 1970s produced by Argus Communications. 
