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Academic respectability …

Dave Snowden
April 30, 2008
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Thanks to Brian Sherwood Jones I have discovered a far more respectable phrase for one aspect of sense-making namely interpretive phenomenological analysis! Reminds me of a scene many years ago when my mother was Chairman of the Education Committee for Flintshire and came home in hysterics as the then Director of Education had suggested a need for more linear based print media. On enquiry it turned out he meant books.

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