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Phenomenology in Education

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Education; Everyday existence; Experience; First person; Pedagogic; Phenomenological methodology; Presence; Relation; Responsibility; School; Vulnerability

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In Scandinavia and Europe, educational institutions are being transformed due to particular political, economical, and educational agreements such as The Bologna Process, to the policies of The Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OECD), and to changes in availability of global knowledge and information mobility through internet and social media. Moreover, families, kindergartens, schools, universities, social welfare programs, and cultures in general are affected deeply by increasing political migration, economic centralization, unemployment, and profound organizational changes in society and work. The structural changes of human and cultural life in Europe contest the common meaning of humanity and democracy and revive critical questions of how to possibly judge and incite alternative thinking and...

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Saevi, T. (2016). Phenomenology in Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_98-1

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