ABSTRACT
This chapter is designed to encourage students to open up and explore the concerns of phenomenology and existentialism approaches to philosophy have in relation to experience and to begin to apply them in education settings. It explores some of the tenets of existentialism that emerged; first, in France directly after the Second World War. The nineteenth-century German philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel is accredited with introducing to philosophy what can be simply referred to as a dialectical approach to the study and practice of phenomenology. In the phenomenology of Heidegger, dasein, while having a central and pivotal role, also offers great challenges to the way in which followers of a phenomenological approach might lead their lives. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's arguably most accessible work is a transcript of a lecture that he gave in Paris at the end of 1945 titled 'Existentialism is a Humanism', which was eventually published as book titled Existentialism and Humanism.
