Primary Teacher's Sense of Space

Abstract

This study was conducted to better understand what it means to be a primary teacher. The research followed Max vanManen's hermeneutic phenomenological research on lived experiences. In order to understand what it means to be a primary teacher, we must study the four lifeworld existentials as proposed by vanManen: lived space (spatiality), lived body (corpeality), lived time (temporality), and lived human relation (relationality or communality). It is through this research that the existential of lived space as pertains to a primary teacher is described in thick, rich text.