Understanding Phenomenological Reflective Practice in the Social and Ecological Fields: Three Rivers Flowing Westoby Peter
Understanding Phenomenological Reflective Practice in the Social and Ecological Fields: Three Rivers Flowing Westoby Peter This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers,…
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Understanding Phenomenological Reflective Practice in the Social and Ecological Fields: Three Rivers Flowing Westoby Peter
This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, cultural and political activists - to a phenomenological tradition of reflective practice.Critiquing reductionist, linear and ossified thinking in the social and ecological fields, the book offers an exciting new alternative that is honouring of the uncertainty of all living and therefore emergent social processes. One personal and the other social. Linking phenomenology and Goethe's 'delicate empiricism', the book challenges practitioners to observe and work with living processes.As such, the book charts two stories, two inquiries.
The first is the personal phenomenological inquiry into the author's own practice, a search to make sense of the nuanced and subtle practice that he brings to the social world.The