Polkinghorne Practice and the Human Sciences

The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8454-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polkinghorne, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. INTRODUCTION
The Technical-Judgment Practice of Controversy
Understanding Practice
2. TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIFICATION
Techne
The Effect of Technology on Culture
Technology and Technical-Rational Practice
Technical-Rational Practice
Critique of the Technified Culture
3. PRACTICE AND CULTURE
Two-Term Explanations of Practice
Practice Theory
Summary 4. THE REALMS OF PRACTICE
Form and Flux
The Realms of Practice
The Practitioner
The Human Sciences and Practical Knowing
5. TECHNE AND PHRONESIS
The Fusion of Horizons
Techne (Science) versus Tuche (Luck)
Plato's Science of Living
Aristotle's Phronesis and Practical Action
6. EMBODIED REASONING
Epstein's Experiential Thinking
Lakoff and Johnson's Embodied Rationality
Gendlin's Experiencing
Damasio's Embodied-Enactive Model
Conclusion
7. REFLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTITIONER JUDGMENT
Practice and the Background
Reflective-Understanding Reasoning
Conclusion
8. A CASE STUDY: PSYCHOTHERAPY
The First Phase: 1890-1950
The Second Phase: 1950-1990
The Third Phase: 1990-the Present

References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald E. Polkinghorne is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Counseling Psychology at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry and Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences, both also published by SUNY Press.