Second-person methodology: explicitation, micro-phenomenological and Focusing interviews
Qualitative analysis of activity
Empirical grounds
Sensitive encounters with nature
First meetings and first appointments between patients and healthcare givers
Selected current missions
Co-PI of the DeepCoNat Project (Deep Connection with Nature). The DeepCoNat Project is applying for a grant from the Spencer Foundation.
Overview: How can we improve educational theory, research and practices through a better understanding of conceptions and practices of knowing that support ecologically responsible and socially just ways of life?Human actions have caused an unprecedented ecological crisis; this is also a crisis of perception, thinking, and knowing, and therefore of education. This project investigates whether phenomenologically inspired methods can capture different ways in which people know and act in the world, and how educational approaches (in schools, communities and teacher education) can foster more caring and just ways of relating to the entire living world.
PI of the ExCoNat Project (Investigating the Experience of Connection to Nature). The ExCoNat Project received and Award from the Laboratoire de l’Education (LLE) de l’ENS de Lyon (2020-2021)
Overview: How can our lived experience contribute to renewing our relationship with ourselves, with others and with the world in a more caring and respectful way? How does our bodily experience contribute to a form of knowledge that brings us closer to what is alive in us and around us? Our project aims at exploring and documenting the experience of connection/disconnection with nature (trees, fields, wind, rain, stones, animals, …) and other people, based on micro-phenomenological interviews. ExCoNat aims at contributing to the fields of eco-psychology – understanding how people manage to regain contact with their own experience and how the experience of the unity of « human beings » and « nature » emerge – and educational sciences – broadening our conceptions of knowledge and knowing and understanding how contemplative pedagogies allow (or not) the relation between inter- being and our inner being.
PI of the Thésée Project (THeories and Explorations of Subjectivity and Explicited Experience). The Thésée Project received and Award from the Labex Aslan (2015-2017), from the Université Lyon 2 (2016) and from the Fonds de la Recherche de l’ENS de Lyon (2015).Overview: The Thésée project aims to understand how people meeting for the first time live this moment. It aims to describe the components of the experience that accompanies first encounters: sensorial experience, emotional experience, bodily experience and cognitive micro-actions. To do this, we rely on a first person epistemology (study of subjectivity) and on a second person methodology (guided retrospective introspections) using explicitation interview. Our working material consists in recorded and transcribed interviews we analyze according to various research question, such as the unfolding of intersubjectivity or the porosity of boundaries between self and others. We study two kinds of encounters: (i) « experimental » (induced) encounters between two people and (ii) « ecological » encounters subjects experienced in their past. For this second type, we specially consider first encounters between “health care workers” and patients.
