University of Alberta

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Max van Manen
University of Alberta
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During my high school and college years in
Holland, I read the postwar existential and
philosophical literature of Sartre, Camus, Hesse,
Frisch, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others.
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In Teachers College our pedagogical studies were
shaped by the phenomenological thinking of the
Utrecht School scholars such as Langeveld,
Buytendijk, van den Berg, Linschoten, and Beets.
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Research Office CPIn web server
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this is my writing place
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this is where I write
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this is where I write
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and I like to read write in coffee shops
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Still, I wonder, where am I when I write? in
my office chair? in my gazing out of the
window? in my mind space? in the cyberspace
of the screen? in the words I write? in the
thoughts I think? in the space of the
text? in
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While writing, I seem to experience myself
dwelling in some world on the other side of my
everyday world even when I gaze out of my window
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the writerly gaze
from my window
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the writerly gaze
from my window
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the writerly gaze
from my window
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Writing is like falling forward into the dark
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here I may feel lost, unable to write or
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in a moment of bliss, suddenly grasp something
in words, see its uniqueness, its singularity,
its secret
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My favorite line still remains to be written it
would show how originary experience, meaning, and
language are related
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SSHRC funded research projects

• Human Science Research Methods
• Epistemology of Practice
• Childhoods Secrets
• Language of Pedagogy (Recognition)
• Writing Online

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SSHRC related publications
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Monash University, Health Sciences Keynote
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Bunhwangsa Bulguksa temples, Buddhist priest
Jong-Su Lee
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Translations
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Translations
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Translations
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phenomenologyonline.com
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International Institute of Phenomenology and
Pedagogy
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Kaplan Award
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