Living with Uncertainty: Older Persons’ Lived Experience of Making Independent Decisions over Time by Agneta Breitholtz, Ingrid Snellman, Ingegerd Fagerberg

“…Audiotaped narrative interviews were conducted and analysed using a phenomenological hermeneutic method. Findings revealed a main theme: “living with uncertainty as to how to relate one’s own independence and dependence with regard to oneself, and others.” …”
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CONSTRUCTIVISM GOES QUANTUM: THE APPROACH REFORM by T. A. Alekseeva, A. P. Mineev, A. V. Fenenko, I. D. Loshkariov, B. I. Ananyev

“…First, we are giving basic introduction of constructivism on the basis of historical and hermeneutical approaches. There is no doubt that the paradigm has faced different theoretical challenges and a lot of critics which has to be addressed. …”
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Educational guidance systematization in adolescent’s sexual and reproductive health in Cuba by Sandra Ochoa Durán, Clara Ofelia Suárez Rodríguez, María del Toro Sánchez, Ailién Chaveco Castillo

“…To do so, the qualitative methodology was used, with the historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and hermeneutic-dialectical methods, and the Homero Fuentes and followers’ holistic Configurational theory. …”
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Exploring distance learning in higher education: satisfaction and insights from Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Turkey by Miltiadis D. Lytras, Andreea Claudia Serban, Stamatios Ntanos

“…It contributes to the theory of DL with a model of six hermeneutic factors for the satisfaction of using the DL method. …”
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Cultural Heritage in the Field of the Idea of Nature Protection in the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) as an Antecedent of Ecological Education in Poland at the Turn of the 21st... by Edyta Wolter

“…Consequently, a qualitative method of research was applied (qualitative text analysis /qualitative analysis of documents), in which hermeneutic understanding and text interpretation is relevant. …”
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Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices by Lucio Angelo Privitello

“…Such a task hopes to add to the PWL’s cartographic and hermeneutic project of the arts of living, teachers of ways of living, and as an alternative and vibrant history of philosophy. …”
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L'écart et l'entre-deux : traduire la culture by Jean Szlamowicz

“…Translation must therefore develop a hermeneutical approach. This critical stance is about sorting out what belongs to the languages and what belongs to the text as a specific unit, as a cultural and authorial unit.Because of its cultural nature, translation questions the way one can carry meaning across languages. …”
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ЕMPATHY AS CONDITIONS OF HUMAN CREATIVITY by Tamara N. Matyukh

“…Methodological and theoretical basis of the study was a combination of systemic, structural-functional and hermeneutic approaches; psychological and philosophical concepts of empathy problems and theoretical analysis of foreign and domestic literature in the field of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology. …”
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Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview by T. V. Danylova

“…The author has used the hermeneutic approach and cultural-historical method, as well as the anthropological integrative approach. …”
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PHILOSOPHEME OF SYMBOL AND CONCEPT OF THE MEANING: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS by P. V. Kretov

“…The research is based on the methodology of historical and philosophical analysis in synchronic and diachronic aspects, principles of hermeneutic understanding and reconstruction and phenomenological descriptions. …”
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Operational use of electronic records in police work by Erik Borglund

“…</b> The empirical data were analysed using a hermeneutical analysis technique without computer-based support. …”
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La traductologie canadienne : ancrage européen, tropisme anglo-américain by Annie Brisset

“…By setting itself in the descriptive, target-oriented paradigm (Tel Aviv-Louvain school of thought), it broke away from the hermeneutic-poetic paradigm epitomized by Meschonnic. …”
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Balancing between being the most valuable player (MVP) and passing the ball: a qualitative study of support when living with chronic pain in Sweden by Markus Saarijärvi, Sara Wallström, Inger Ekman, Mari Lundberg, Veronica Lilja, Vivi-Anne Segertoft

“…Objective This study aimed to elucidate the meaning of lived experiences of support from social networks and the healthcare sector in persons with chronic pain.Design A qualitative, phenomenological hermeneutic method was used to analyse interview data.Setting Participants were recruited from patient organisations in Sweden.Participants Ten (seven women, two men and one non-binary) individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain were included.Findings The meaning of lived experiences of support in persons with chronic pain involves balancing between being the most valuable player (MVP) and passing the ball, meaning balancing between being a capable person and accepting support to be that capable person.Conclusion For participants who lived with chronic pain, support means balancing between being capable (the MVP) and willing to accept support (passing the ball), which aligns with the concept of person-centred care. …”
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Engaging with Families Is a Challenge: Beliefs among Healthcare Professionals in Forensic Psychiatric Care by Ulrica Hörberg, Eva Benzein, Christen Erlingsson, Susanne Syrén

“…The aim of this study was to uncover beliefs among healthcare professionals concerning families of patients admitted for FPC. Using a hermeneutical approach inspired by Gadamer’s philosophy, group interviews with healthcare professionals in four Swedish forensic psychiatric clinics were analyzed. …”
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‘A new sense of my former self’ – transforming the self through vocational rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury by Pia Kold, Hanne Peoples, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Jesper Larsen Maersk

“…Data were collected using semi-structured individual interviews and analysed using a hermeneutic approach.Results The analysis resulted in three themes: a new sense of my former self, engaging in occupations as transformation, and the significance of support.Conclusions Participating in vocational rehabilitation can enable persons with ABI to form a new sense of self. …”
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Exploring Professional Support Offered by Midwives during Labour: An Observation and Interview Study by Stina Thorstensson, Anette Ekström, Ingela Lundgren, Elisabeth Hertfelt Wahn

“…Data were analysed using hermeneutical text interpretation. The results are presented with three themes. (1) Support as a professional task seems unclear and less well defined than medical controls. (2) Midwives and parents express somewhat different supportive ideas about how to create a sense of security. (3) Partner and midwife interact in support of the childbearing woman. …”
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Rethinking Gender and Epistemic Injustice: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Breast Cancer Memoirs by Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra

“…Herbert’s <i>The Pink Unicorns of Male Breast Cancer</i> (2016) and Nina Riggs’ <i>The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying</i> (2017), we explore how male and female breast cancer patients distinctly experience vitiated testimonial dynamics and hermeneutical marginalisation. Breast cancer patients can negotiate credibility deficit, identity crisis, and existential crisis caused by epistemic injustice through narrating. …”
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FORMATION OF THE NEW WORLD VIEW, NEW PERSON, NEW SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE by Valentina A. Voronkova

“…Study is based on the methd of hermeneutical analysis.The scientific novelty of this work is shown in the results, which indicate the formation of the noosphere worldview that seeks to realize the idea of V.Vernadsky, which manifests itself in the context of a harmonious relationship of scientific knowledge, philosophy, and religion, which produce a variety of forms of dialogue between people of different cultural backgrounds, nationalities, religions, generations and gender. …”
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METAPHISICAL BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY by D. Y. Snitko

“…Methodology of this work consists of such intellectual approaches as the phenomenological, hermeneutic and comparative methods. Originality. The originality of the article is in the clear question about the metaphysical preconditions of technology, firstly made in the national literature. …”
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Theology of Creation and Beauty: Kohelet 3:11 by Tibor Máhrik, Roman Králik

“…This paper explores the interrelated concepts of beauty, creation, and kitsch, which collectively form a comprehensive framework for understanding one’s relationship to the world and one’s place in it. The hermeneutic of the text Kohelet 3:11, which defines beauty as a characteristic feature of all being in the context of creation theology, is utilised to focus on the typical tension between beauty as an immanent feature of the real world and the human desire to fully understand and capture it. …”
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