The Employment of the Phenomenological Psychological Method in the Service of Art Education

Abstract

Abstract The concern of this study is the consequences of art education information on the experiencing of a painting that has already been experienced in a condition naïve to such information. It is believed that experiential data of viewers with respect to such consequences can be accessed by way of the phenomenological approach. The phenomenological psychology and methodology that are representative of this approach are that of Amedeo P. Giorgi. The employment of Giorgi’s phenomenological psychological method in this study is in the service of education and pedagogy. Giorgi’s history of research on a phenomenological psychology and the method specific to it goes back a number of decades. Four major presentations by Giorgi (1985, 2009; Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003, 2008) are the sources for designing the study here in the use of his method. Giorgi’s (2009) book is the major source for the understanding of his development and use of the method.