This study focuses on the phenomenon of time and decision-making in schools by asking the phenomenological question' What does it look like to make decisions (relative to time and temporal situatedness)? ' It explores this question by working through the ideas of Heidegger's Nothingness, Merleau-Ponty's corporeality, van Manen's hermeneutics, Habermas' crisis, Bollnow's critique, Derrida's deconstruction, Foucault's poststructuralism, Nietzsche's free will, Innis' political history, Walker's music history, Hargreaves' Critical Theory, Mazis' dance, Morgan's metaphors, Wittgenstein's language logic, and Casey's remembering.
Essentially, the thesis attempts to raise to awareness the intellectual pause, the moment that gives us deep appreciation for our roles as decision-makers and an awareness of decisions about to be made. If we are nothing more than movers-moving-in-endless-motion through a spiraling maze of decision-making, then as situated beings we are faced with the possibility of thinking ourselves back to awareness, thus entering into genuine dialogue with one another.
CONTENTS
Approval
Abstract
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Figures
PROLOGUE
STEP 1 FINDING THE BEGINNING OF CHANGE
- Crisis? What Crisis?
What is "the problem" ?
Is there time for creative decision-making?
What is the end and what are the means?
STEP 2 WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME
- Poetc tme
Political time
Socio-political time
Cultural time
Linguistic time
Time as multidimensional thought
Dancing time
Ego-moving time
Balanced time
STEP 3 THE MOMENT BETWEEN BREATHS
- A method to a madness
Metaphorically the phenomenon speaks
STEP 4 HERE IS NOW. NOT AS A REMEMBERED MOMENT. BUT AS A FELT HEART BEAT. FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER. AND THEN ANOTHER
- What does it look like to make decisions?
Being Contractual
Being Reflective
Being Critical
Being Imaginatv
Being Trapped
Being Choices
Being Ahistorical
Being Words
Being Movement
Being Mindful
Being Obligated
Being Thoughtful
Being the Beingness of Unfolding Action
STEP 5 TO BE LOST IS THE FIRST HORROR OF MATURATION
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
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