Practice and the Human Sciences

The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care

AvDonald E. Polkinghorne

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using their own judgment. Donald E. Polkinghorne assembles the case for the return to judgment-based practice for the professions that engage in direct person-to-person interaction with those they serve. Set in the larger context of the technification of society, Polkinghorne draws from Weber, Heidegger, Ihde, Bourdieu, de Certeau, and other philosophers to trace the advancing power of the technological worldview in Western culture and uses Aristotle, Dewey, and Gadamer to help make his case that we should be doing things very differently.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791462003

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface 1. INTRODUCTION The Technical-Judgment Practice of Controversy Understanding Practice 2. TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIFICATION Techne The Effect of Technology on CultureTechnology and Technical-Rational PracticeTechnical-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 HorizonsTechne (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 RationalityGendlin'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