Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation challenges the abstract-technical understanding of education to orient the reader to the importance of relationality, intersubjectivity, and otherness to renew and reclaim the educational project.

Part 1: On Education. 1. On the givenness of teaching: Encountering the educational phenomenon. 2. Uncovering what educators’ desire through Kierkegaard’s loving phenomenology. 3. Approaching education on its own terms. 4. Pedagogical Practice. Part 2: Children, Adults, Voice and Agency. 5. More Than Measurement: Education, Uncertainty and Existence. 6. Paulo Freire and Living a non-Neoliberal Life in Education. 7. A Phenomenology of Reading: Textual Technology and Virtual Worlds. 8. Reality testing subjectivity, naivety and freedom – on the possibility of educational moments. Part 3: The Existentials. 9. Bildung and Embodiment: Learning, practicing, space and democratic education. 10. Time, Individuality, and Interaction: A Case Study. 11. The school building and the human: An intertwined relationship. 12. Active and Interactive Bodies. 13. "Awakening to the World as Phenomenon": The Value of Phenomenology for a Pedagogy of Place and Place Making. 14. From Kairos to Chronos: The Experience of Lived Time in Education . 15. Educational possibilities: Teaching toward the phenomenological attitude. Part 4: To Have Been Educated. 16. Deceptively Difficult Education: a case for a lifetime of impact. 17. Education as Pro-duction and E-duction. 18. Focal Practices and the Ontologically Educated Citizen. 19. Between Having and Being: Phenomenological Reflections on Having Been Educated