In this paper, we explore understandings of the Kimberley as wilderness through the embodied knowledge of sites encountered on the travels of four-wheel drivers. We critically review attempts to conceptualise the social role of automobiles in touring practices then turn to non-representational theory to develop our own conceptual framework of…

William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" continues to be a touchstone in cultural representations of the impact of new information and communication technologies on the self. As critics have noted, the posthumanist, capital-driven, urban landscape of "Neuromancer" resembles a Foucaultian vision of a panoptically engineered social space…

Constructions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic are largely influenced by the dominant discourses of sexuality and disease. Deeply embedded in positivistic frames of references that favour conceptions of a medicalised and/or moralised body which operates contextually and socially detached, these discourses remain those that, in the main, frame…

Starting in the 1960s, researchers in many countries have expressed concern over the state of crisis of monogamy, addressing the phenomenon as a direct function of global social transformations. The author finds it is difficult to agree with the negative assessment of the current status of the family, noting that centuries of evidence confirm the…

This book integrates poetry and psychology to explore how people shape their childhood place memories and self-identities in conformity with their philosophies of nature. Drawing upon written work and original interviews, the book describes uses of memory through the perspectives of five contemporary American poets: William Bronk, David Ignatow,…

The antifoundational or "hermeneutic" paradigm, particularly as it has been internalized by the field of composition studies, exists in a weak version or a strong version. The weak version stresses interactive consensus-building pedagogical practices where discourse is remade by negotiating it with others. The strong version suggests…

Looks at writing as a dialectical affair--"dialectic" refers both to the dialogical nature of writing and the opportunity it opens up for the writer in coming to a new understanding of the subject matter. Uses H. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics as a starting point for developing writing as a dialectical process. (PA)

A hermeneutic view of counseling attunes counselors to the particular meanings and meaning-making potentials clients and students bring to conversations. Accordingly, counselors' questions and proposed solutions can engage the meaning-making efforts of clients in ways counselors and clients both can learn from. Article explores ways to adopt and…

Makes the case that responsiveness is a virtue, in evaluation as in everyday life, rather than merely a methodological tool for use in evaluation. Extends this concept using ideas from the Aristotelian tradition of practical philosophy as elaborated in recent works on hermeneutic philosophy. (SLD)

Explores the possibilities of a hermeneutic model of composition history by examining a text which has been omitted from the received narratives of the discipline: an inaugural address written by George Robert Carlsen, president of the National Council of Teachers of English, entitled "The State of the Profession 1961-1962." (PRA)

Indicates that the language of discourse needs to be evaluated more diligently by participants, greater attention must be paid to the tradition out of which an interpreter speaks, and hidden assumptions need to be unveiled more critically by participants in continuing professional discourse. (JOW)

Argues that the gap between transmission and reception is fundamental to most communication. Summarizes theorizing on communication and mass communication in Plato, about U.S. broadcasting, and in hermeneutics. Concludes that a conceptual contrast between open dissemination (mass) and individualized interaction (interpersonal) is inevitable…

Vocational education research can benefit from clearly identifying epistemological and ontological difficulties between qualitative and quantitative research and from using hermeneutics, which incorporates lived interpretation of experiences and challenges the methodological mentality. (SK)

The "roadworthiness" of literal meaning is tested in this essay, which involves a review of some influential views of literal meaning and related categories advanced by Searle and other pragmaticists, from the standpoint of integrational linguistics. Implications of an integrational perspective need to be reflected in theorizing about…

A metatheory of adult education is based on the knowledge found in practice. The relationship of practical knowledge to hermeneutic understanding and the limitations of "informal" theory are discussed. The conclusion is that an adult education curriculum can be theorized, but this depends on a metatheory of the curriculum. (SK)