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Phenomenology as a Proto-Language in Educational Empirical Research. Some Principles and a Case-Study from Video-Analysis of E-Teaching and E-Learning

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Phenomenology as a proto-language in educational empirical research. Some principles and a case-study from video-analysis of e-teaching and e-learning

Phenomenological insights of the life world structures might function as a rich proto- or meta-language for empirical research and are necessary steps in any critical-constructive analysis of the matters studied. A phenomenological-constitutive and reductionist approach particularly provides us with a broadening of the perspective. When further elaborated, it furnishes us with explanations of strong explanatory power for the typical social interactions in schools. To support the thesis, the paper presents some results of a video-analysis of internet-based e-teaching as a case-study. In this way, phenomenology and empirical studies are combined for the development of methodology not only for educational research, but also for the cultural sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) in general.

At the outset I was more concerned with what Husserl called the phenomenology of the natural attitude than the problems of transcendental phenomenology. I felt that the main importance of phenomenology for any attempt at exploring social reality consisted in the fact, also established by Husserl, that all knowledge achieved by analysis of the reduced transcendental sphere remained valid within the natural attitude. (Alfred Schütz; Quote from an interview published by Embree (1999b), by Kåre Fuglseth)

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    The platform YouTube has thousands of similar kinds of e-lectures with real audiences.

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    The picture (Fig. 1) is a representation of a software called Camtasia.

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Fuglseth, K. (2015). Phenomenology as a Proto-Language in Educational Empirical Research. Some Principles and a Case-Study from Video-Analysis of E-Teaching and E-Learning. In: Brinkmann, M., Kubac, R., Rödel, S. (eds) Pädagogische Erfahrung. Phänomenologische Erziehungswissenschaft, vol 1. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06618-5_15

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