(Sept, 2022) The Therapeutic Benefits Of Wood Carving https://thespooncrank.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-wood-carving/
➡️ A Phenomenological Study of the Therapeutic Benefits of Woodcarving
By Jenny Rudell; Graeme Hamilton is working in Technical Studies and Counselling at Oak Bay Secondary School in Victoria, Canada. His master’s thesis from the Simon Fraser University is called A phenomenological study of the therapeutic benefits of woodcarving
- I did my master’s at University of British Columbia and the thesis at the Simon Fraser University.
- To be honest, it was a bit overwhelming at times that this whole field of crafts and psychology is kind of untapped in academia, but let me back up a little bit…
As I talked to some indigenous carvers, I realized that in the past, academics had sometimes come into indigenous communities and taken information without proper acknowledgement.
- So I shifted the focus a little… Instead I decided on what they call a hermeneutic phenomenological study, which is a mouthful, but basically the phenomenological part means it studies the phenomenon of woodcarving, the lived experience of the person engaged in it.
- Hermeneutic phenomenological research, as outlined by Max van Manen, basically looks at four areas of the lived experience: the lived time, the lived body, the lived space, and the lived relation.
- Here in Canada, a lot of students will go into engineering at universities, but they’ve had no exposure of using a tool or they don’t know how to use a tape measure. 😂 [last week’s conversation!]