Abstract Our everyday lifeworlds, the environments in which we spend our daily lives, exercise agency and control to are bound through practical knowledge routines, receive little attention contemporary climate ethics. This is unfortunate, as ethics can benefit from an in-depth analysis of lifeworld-perspective—especially when it comes evaluating individual’s role face change. paper focuses on ...

Working within frameworks drawn from the writings of Immanuel Kant, Alfred Schutz, and Kenneth Burke, this article examines the role that diagnostic categories play in autobiographical accounts of illness, with a special focus on chronic disease. Four lay diagnostic categories, each with different connections to formal medical diagnostic categories, serve as typifications to make sense of the w...

The purpose of this study was to gain in-depth understanding of what it is like for a person with irritable bowel syndrome to be in the patient position in encounters with health care providers. We conducted qualitative interviews with nine individuals. Our analysis, guided by interpretive description, revealed experiences of unsupportive and supportive encounters. Unsupportive encounters were ...

The crisis of pandemics such as Covid-19 reveals the reality a crisis-ridden world fraught by devastation nature and distortion human life simultaneously. This article tries to bring light that actually move from one ‘region’ Lifeworld another. phenomenological notion ‘Lifeworld’ can enable see ‘natural life’ ‘civil two different but related ‘regions each other in context an ontological unity. ...

Fredrik Sandberg and Per Andersson, RPL for accreditation in higher education: as a process of mutual understanding or merely lifeworld colonisation?, 2011, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, (36), 7, 767-780. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2010.488793 Copyright: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)...

This article is devoted to reflections on how prevent pre-understanding from influencing the research process and jeopardizing validity of a study. Influences preunderstanding are exemplified empirical lifeworld-led caring science research. Finally, there discussion as natural attitude therefore also an important part lifeworld. It concluded that requires self-critical approach. suggested descr...