Embodiment, emotion and empathy

The work presents a phenomenologic view on how emotions, embodiment and empathy work together in learning. The author gives the example of apprenticehship where the apprentice needs to develop empathy in order to "be in the other", it is, the mentor to learn a skill and use his/her body to initiate this.

Key ideas

1. Education of attention: state experienced by apprentices in order to learn from more experienced practitioners
2. Heidegger's "being-in-the-world"
3. Emotions-in-the-world
4. Bodies can't be apperceived as objects
5. Primary and secondary intersubjectivities acting to create one phenomenological unity: the other person's view become part of me
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