Overview
- Will encourage others to explore their lives through academic research
- Helps to derive meaning from personal research
- Conveys the importance of "Mesearch" in the academy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book uses Viktor Frankl’s Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic. Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning. Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in the academy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amber Esping is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, USA. She is the author of Sympathetic Vibrations: A Guide for Private Music Teachers (2000), and co-author (with Jonathan Plucker) of Intelligence 101 (2014). Her research focuses on the history of human intelligence theory and testing, and the application of existential psychology to academic contexts and qualitative inquiry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Epistemology, Ethics, and Meaning in Unusually Personal Scholarship
Authors: Amber Esping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73718-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73717-1Published: 02 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08842-2Published: 14 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73718-8Published: 23 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 187
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Self and Identity, Emotion, Memory Studies