La fenomenologia come metodo di ricerca pedagogica con e per le famiglie

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present some of the specific opportunities and tools that Phenomenology, meant as a paradigm and therefore a research method, can offer the pedagogy of family relationships. First, some of the central categories of Phenomenology are described and discussed, with specific reference to Husserl and some of his first students. Below, it is explained in more detail how phenomenology can be a style of field research, also in the link with Hermeneutics. Thanks to this description, it will be highlighted that every phenomenological research design is, as such, an educational project with a specific ethical depth. Although the objective of these pages is not to present a specific research in the field, nor to explain its results, however an experience of analysis and eidetic description of some parental lived-experiences that emerged in a phenomenological research-intervention will be also reported, from the point of view by one of the researchers who carried out it.