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The representation of reality in teaching: A 'mimetic didactic' perspective on examples in plenary talk
2016
ABSTRACTUsing an observation study in Norwegian lower-secondary school classrooms this paper explores how subject matter and students’ real-world experiences are linked within the use of examples in teaching. The theory of “mimetic didactics” claims that giving students the possibility to interpret examples as both subject matter and something that is relevant to their own lives becomes a possibility through imaginative “as-if” experiences. The study finds that “as-if” experiences in the data are created by identifying with others and through a context-dependent knowledge base. The topics in the examples actualise being human within the political, economic and existential realm and offer po…
Experiences of Living in a Disrupted Situation as Partner to a Man With Testicular Cancer
2009
New knowledge has been gained about how close relatives reorient themselves and handle their life situation when facing close relatives' illness. The aim of this study was to describe and elucidate narrated experiences of living in a disrupted situation as partner to a patient with testicular cancer. A qualitative single-case design with a conversational interview using a semistructured guide with open-ended questions was implemented. A young woman whose partner had testicular cancer with metastases was interviewed. Narrative analysis of the data with focus on corporeality, spatiality, temporality, and communality revealed three themes that reflected the woman's concerns in different exist…
Being in transit and in transition The experience of time at the place, when living with severe incurable disease - a phenomenological study
2014
The aim of this study is to describe the experience of time as it presents itself at the place being situated when living with severe incurable disease and receiving palliative care. The empirical data consist of 26 open-ended interviews with 23 patients receiving palliative care at home, at a palliative day care; in a palliative bed unite in hospital or in a nursing home in Norway. A common meaning of a shifting space for living emerged from the analysis and was revealed through three different aspects: (i) Transition from a predictable to an unpredictable time: To live with severe incurable disease marks a transition to a changed life involving an ongoing weakened and altered body with bo…
Between Life and Existence. Heidegger’s Aristotelianism and the Question of Animality
2021
This paper starts by investigating the Aristotelian roots of Heidegger’s stance toward animal life from 1924 lecture course “Basic concepts of Aristotelian philosophy” to 1929/30 lecture course “The fundamental concepts of Metaphysics”. In following Aristotle, Heidegger displays the ontological transition from life to existence as grounded to the peculiar linguistic ability of human beings. In doing that, both Heidegger and Aristotle seem to establish a connection between an existential faculty (logos) and the apparently dominant position occupied by our species. On the other side, though, to be endowed with logos means for human beings to be able to de-centre themselves in recognizing the …
Being-here. Placemaking in a world of movement
2019
How to write an ethnography about something as difficult to understand and translate into words as the existential importance of place for those who experience displacement?Annika Lems masters this...
Le crime comme fantasme et comme un moyen d'échapper à la situation de dépendance : autour de "L'Invitée" beauvoirienne
2016
The novel L’Invitee by Simone de Beauvoir deals with the age-old problem of the presence of the Other in the life of a free man. On the existential level, the book shows the contradiction between the human desire to be independent and the need to be loved. It also shows a morał (metaphysical) dilemma, relating to coexistence of the different types of awareness characteristic of Parisian artists and the world of the bourgeoisie. The confrontation with another man ends in inevitablc failure and the risk of committing the symbolic act of murder, arising out of jealousy, the inability to fully subjugate the other person, or possibly due to philosophical reasons. This conflict provides a backdro…
L’ambiguïté de la condition humaine et ses interprétations existentialistes selon Simone de Beauvoir
2018
Simone de Beauvoir perceives existentialism as a philosophy of ambiguity, suggesting that a man should reconcile the contradictions of the human condition. The philosophical essays of the author show the evolution of her thinking. Beauvoir discovers the paradoxes of existentialism, mainly the antimony between responsibility and powerlessness of an individual. Her work captures an image of reality while relativizing philosophical values and maintaining the opposites. Her texts show the ambivalent attitude of the author to existence. Thus, they reflect her point of view, according to which moral consciousness only exists when a person experiences some intellectual dissonance or a sense of fai…
Les figures du trauma chez Simone de Beauvoir
2018
The work of de Beauvoir expresses the trauma of being unable to reach the Absolute by an introverted individual, breaking with the image of the writer as an eternal optimist, whose life was filled with pleasures and journeys. Considering her individualism, this article will take an interdisciplinary view at the contrast between the desire for existence and its absence, the search for identity and the dialectic of existentialism. Selected autobiographical works and essays will illustrate how the trauma in the discourse of the writer manifests itself through fear, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or suffering, expressing loss of faith, despair, internal crisis, and obsession with death, which ar…
2018
Currently, there are various definitions for extreme sports and researchers in the field have been unable to advance a consensus on what exactly constitutes an 'extreme' sport. Traditional theory-led explanations, such as edgeworks, sensation seeking and psychoanalysis, have led to inadequate conceptions. These frameworks have failed to capture the depth and nuances of experiences of individuals who refute the notions of risk-taking, adrenaline- and thrill-seeking or death-defiance. Instead, participants are reported to describe experiences as positive, deeply meaningful and life-enhancing. The constant evolution of emerging participation styles and philosophies, expressed within and across…
Who Wants to Be Understood? The Desire for Social Affirmation and the Existential Challenge of Self-Understanding
2019
The guiding thesis of this chapter is that self-understanding is centrally an existential challenge. In particular, the chapter aims to lay bare the massive potential of our desire for social affirmation to influence and distort our self-understanding, mostly in a covert and unacknowledged fashion. To the extent that we are driven by this desire, we are primarily concerned with assessing, in an emotionally charged and self-deceptive manner, the social worth of our self, whereas we lack the will and ability to understand ourselves in an open and unqualified manner. Ultimately, it is argued that whatever the cognitive demands of self-understanding and our ability to meet these demands may be,…