You both make great points. Although I was able to connect with the article, I too had some reservations about the length of the anecdote. I think that a well written, descriptive, focused anecdote can be very powerful (think of Iris's anecdote from class). I think it also shows that writting an effective anecdote is not easy and will take practice. Gloria, you also mentioned abut the number of questions being disorienting. I agree, it took me a couple readings to pull out what I thought were the essential questions. This highlights, for me, the importance of the questions being within the "circle" that Norm spoke about in class. It is easy to get too many that the focus becomes lost and one becomes easily side tracked. I did like that the article raised so many questions that it highlighted the variety of branches of inquiry that could be taken from the main question (What is the essence of training). I also find it interesting that it is not so easy to identify "THE question" in the article. I think Norm also mentioned this in the article he reviewed. Maybe this is part of what makes hermeneutic phenomenology so difficult to explain.. I am still looking for black and white, cut and dried... not words that can be used to describe this methodology (and philosophy)!
Susan,
How exciting that the girls felt so uplifted and "spiritual" in their success. I can't help but think this is what the article is getting at..the soul/body expreience of training and what focuses each individual to keep going. It is also interesting how one article can draw different people in in different ways. I thought this article was great at providing questions to spur further inquiry.
Thanks for your comments!
:) Merilee
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