Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning

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Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning is written by Fiachra Long and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000684067 (ISBN 10) and 9781000684063 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the ‘closeness’ or ‘proximity’ of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old. Studying the power of learning to transform human beings, this book offers an in-depth discussion of how different phenomenologists understand this ‘proximate’ power. It draws on ideas of encounter from Husserl, care from Heidegger, bodily learning from Merleau-Ponty, language from Foucault, omnipotence from Winnicott and recognition from Honneth. The book examines how phenomenological insight can explain the character of radical learning. The book will appeal to academics and post-graduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, educational psychology, teaching, and learning.