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Tutoring What are the limitations of describing tutoring as a process of "transfer of knowledge"? What if we think of tutoring as a process of "negociation" where tutor and student are trying to reach a shared understanding of a situation and together construct adaptive responses to the challenges they are trying to overcome? How would such an alternative approach contribute to the tutoring activity and make it more efficient? |
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PAIN How does culture shape our experience of pain? What are the layers of interpretations deposited atop of the phenomenon of pain in the western culture? How to design a phenomenological study that answers the previous question? How would an EMIC perspective from cultures involved in rituals that the western world considers 'painful' or 'masochistic' adds to our understanding of pain? |
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OBESITY What is the role of media, advertising and nutritional promotions in perpetuating the commonly held conception that slim is healthy and beautiful while fat is unhealthy and ugly? Why is How does the framing of the obesity problem as an individualistic clinical problem limit the range of solutions that one can reach (dieting)? What kind of alternative solutions could surface when the social aspect of obesity gets in the picture ?(body image, challenging the thin ideal culture, questioning the assumption that obese body means unhealthy body, surveillance of the fast food industry) What are the political roots of concepts like 'overweight', 'low calorie eating' ? Whose interests are being served by the adoption of such concepts in society? |
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GAMBLING How do casinos shape the experience of gambling? And how do they construct the subjectivity of the gambler? What would a phenomenological study of gambling reveal about what is someone really experiencing when he or she is betting on something of value? When isolated from the social context that is shaping it, is gambling an activity that an individual would like to practice? |