In the previous chapters there was continual talk of: (i) possible structures of pedagogical situations with which it is noted that still other pedagogical structures might exist that are not yet noticed and that such structures are possibilities that can be actualized in pedagogic situations; (ii) pedagogical structures (with their essences) that are available to the participants in pedagogica...

The treatment of patients with chronic pain disorders is complex. In the rehabilitation of these patients, coping with chronic pain is seen as important. The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of attachment and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (CT) among patients with chronic pain and psychiatric co-morbidity. A phenomenological approach within a lifeworld perspective was used. In ...

I elaborate on the tension between Luhmann’s social systems theory and Habermas’ theory of communicative action, and argue that this tension can be resolved by focusing on language as the interhuman medium of the communication which enables us to develop symbolically generalized media of communication such as truth, love, power, etc. Following Luhmann, the layers of self-organization among the ...

This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of comm...

This paper uses the thick description of one recent experience – closure Common Room Club at University College Dublin to highlight gap that exists between rhetoric and reality institutions higher education in Ireland beyond. I argue common rooms have always been part parcel ‘invisible university’. They provide infrastructure support what has called ‘lifeworld’, sustaining both communicative ex...

Purpose. This article aims at outlining the socio-communicative prerequisites for influence of personality on acquisition rigorous scientific knowledge. Theoretical basis. The communicative foundations an individual’s activity in general and functioning his consciousness particular were laid by philosophy Edmund Husserl, primarily due to introduction concepts "intersubjectivity" "lifeworld". Fr...