ASSIGNMENT 3 (ESSAY) 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: JULY 2025
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Assignment 3 2025
Unique No.
Due Date: July 2025
Philosophy of Education
Question 1: Name TWO philosophers who were associated with Phenomenology.
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Question 2: Identify FIVE characteristics of Phenomenology.
1. Intentionality: Phenomenology views consciousness as being always directed
toward something, meaning that all thought and perception are about something.
2. Lifeworld (Lebenswelt): Phenomenology emphasizes the importance of the
everyday world of lived experience as a central focus of inquiry.
3. Subjectivity: Phenomenology focuses on individual, subjective experiences
rather than objective realities.
4. Essences: It seeks to uncover the essential structures of experience, the
fundamental qualities that make experiences what they are.
5. Bracketing (Epoché): Phenomenologists practice "bracketing," which means
setting aside assumptions and preconceptions to focus purely on the experience
itself.
Question 3: Name THREE educators who are associated with Phenomenology.
1. Max van Manen
2. Johann Friedrich Herbart
3. Hans-Georg Gadamer