Educational Research Methodology Inspired by the Theory of Enaction

• Authors: Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki , Tahereh Javidi Kalateh Jafarabadi

Abstracts

EN

A theory of cognition and an interdisciplinary research program so-called enactivism put forward by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch since their book titled: “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience had been published in 1991. The theory and research program proposed in this book can be explicated in terms of eight significant themes including autopoiesis, sense-making, emergence, experience, embodied mind, embedded mind, enacted mind and the extended mind. This paper is an interpretation of the theory of enaction as a platform to educational research methodological reform. So it is argued that the non-reductionistic enactive approach is the promising arena for addressing educational research methodology so that circulation between first- and third-personal phenomena makes sense across a range of objective and subjective issues that mixed methodologists want to deal.

Keywords

EN

Neuro-phenomenology; theory of enaction; circular research methodology; educational phenomena and activity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 62
• Pages: 141-156

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki

• Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

author

Tahereh Javidi Kalateh Jafarabadi

• Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.20.62.4.12

Biblioteka Nauki

1963672