‘TEACHING’ PHENOMENOLOGY- THE HAPPENING OF UNDERSTANDING

I remember as an undergraduate of Physics at Imperial College, that one of our lecturers in quantum theory said – “If you think you had no trouble understanding what I have just said, probably you have not understood it at all.” The same conundrum faces anyone hoping to arouse appreciation amongst students of all that is revolutionary about phenomenology as a way of seeing, a way of experiencing and exploring the life-world.