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 …

In this chapter, I begin by defining some pivotal terms and then discuss the predecessors of
contemporary narrative researchers: sociologists and anthropologists who championed the …

In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every stage an
original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots …

Scholars working in the area broadly described as' social studies of science'have
convincingly demonstrated over the past decade that natural scientific knowledge is a …

This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a
practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to …

This volume provides a basic framework for using visual data-namely still photographs-as a
tool for social analysis. The authors determine the importance of theoretical assumptions in …

Durante los primeros años de 1990, mientras intentaba interpretar y representar como
narrativa mis entrevistas a inspectoras escolares, me basé en una rica tradición …

At the end of a recent graduate course entitled," Interpretive Inquiry in Educational
Research," a course in which phenomenology, critical theory, semiotics, and post …

The question of'values' and moral judgement has pervaded the human sciences and
philosophy since their inception. This chapter will deal with the way this question has been …

Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part
of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are …