Overview
- Encompasses learning, learning-motivation, and the impetus to create in such a way as to make a fresh contribution to the literature on learning
- Offers a holistic, relational discussion of pedagogy
- Applies rigorous descriptive phenomenological research methods, such as those developed by Amedeo Giorgi
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In this text, the history of phenomenological research on learning is synthesized and brought forward into the areas of existential learning, the development of enthusiasm about learning (from childhood through adulthood), and paradigmatic creative experience. Original research findings are derived using the Giorgi method of descriptive phenomenological analysis in psychology. The results, structural and eidetic in nature, are then integrated from a holistic developmental viewpoint: that of Existential-Humanistic Self-Development Theory (EHSDT). An evolving developmental partnership between learning and creativity emerges as the proper conceptual frame for considering optimal growth and the relative maturity of situated becoming oneself (i.e., the process of self-cultivation). The resulting perspective is supported by cutting edge trends in neuroscience and related to pedagogy and education.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eugene M. DeRobertis is Professor of Psychology at Brookdale College, USA. He is also Lecturer at Rutgers University - Newark, USA. His academic concentrations lie in phenomenological psychology and Existential-Humanistic Self-Development Theory (EHSDT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Phenomenology of Learning and Becoming
Book Subtitle: Enthusiasm, Creativity, and Self-Development
Authors: Eugene Mario DeRobertis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95204-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95203-8Published: 27 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95760-6Published: 27 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95204-5Published: 27 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 231
Topics: Positive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Phenomenology