The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery

This interpretive essay attempts to demonstrate the potential good that might come from approaching a hermeneutic phenomenological study as a hard-boiled detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. The authors attempt to explain the hermeneutic warrants for such an adventure—that is, fo...

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Autores principales: W. John Williamson, James Colin Field
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3d2d3c13c3724aeeb5f4527ac65e502c2021-11-25T21:25:55ZThe Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery10.11575/jah.v0i0.532271927-4416https://doaj.org/article/3d2d3c13c3724aeeb5f4527ac65e502c2014-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/53227https://doaj.org/toc/1927-4416 This interpretive essay attempts to demonstrate the potential good that might come from approaching a hermeneutic phenomenological study as a hard-boiled detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. The authors attempt to explain the hermeneutic warrants for such an adventure—that is, for how and why a topic like the categorization and treatment of students in the public education system as “slow learners†might be approached as a detective story. The parallels between detective fiction, Chandler’s work as a noir novelist, and hermeneutics are drawn out. Attention is drawn to the ground of our interpretive relationship with the world in Heidegger’s notion of the “as structure†of interpretation. A case is made for seeing the hard-boiled detective story as a hermeneutic venue for shaking up commonsense understandings of how we have come to see and do education with those students designated as slow in their learning.     W. John WilliamsonJames Colin FieldUniversity of CalgaryarticlefictionhermeneuticsmysteryPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENJournal of Applied Hermeneutics (2014)
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W. John Williamson
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery
description This interpretive essay attempts to demonstrate the potential good that might come from approaching a hermeneutic phenomenological study as a hard-boiled detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. The authors attempt to explain the hermeneutic warrants for such an adventure—that is, for how and why a topic like the categorization and treatment of students in the public education system as “slow learners†might be approached as a detective story. The parallels between detective fiction, Chandler’s work as a noir novelist, and hermeneutics are drawn out. Attention is drawn to the ground of our interpretive relationship with the world in Heidegger’s notion of the “as structure†of interpretation. A case is made for seeing the hard-boiled detective story as a hermeneutic venue for shaking up commonsense understandings of how we have come to see and do education with those students designated as slow in their learning.    
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