| Autobiographical Writing Education Based on Self-Reflection - Focused on Van Manen’s View about the Description of Lived Experience and the Interpretation of Its Meaning |
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Youngjin Kiem, Nam-Sook Hyum |
| 자기성찰에 기반한 자전적 글쓰기 교육 |
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김영진, 현남숙 |
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The purpose of this study is to introduce a form of phenomenological hermeneutics based on self-reflection as a means for autobiographical writing and to apply it to the university writing education. We characterize autobiographical writing as the search for the importance and value of one’s lived experience, by means of the description and interpretation of that experience. Here phenomenological hermeneutics helps a writer to describe his or her lived experience without distortions and also to ruminate the meaning of such experience. When the phenomenological hermeneutics is adopted in the autobiographical writing education, we can teach students the following: (i) regarding the subject matter of lived experience, an anecdote approach, (ii) regarding the description of such experience, the first-person method in which the deeper subjective inner part of a writer is exposed, and (iii) regarding the interpretation of such experience, the way in which the personal meaning of experience rather than a simple analysis of facts is found. Autobiographical writing education based on phenomenological hermeneutics leads a writer to reflect one’s lived experiences as they are and to find out some meanings in them. In that regard it can be used as an effective means for self-reflection. |
| Key Words:
self-reflection, phenomenological hermeneutics, lived experience, description, interpretation, autobiographical writing, applied phenomenology |
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