Thomas Feldges

Thomas Feldges

Tom Feldges has previously taught research and psychology modules on various care-related HE courses. He is currently writing his PhD thesis at the University of Hull, while he lectures to philosophy undergraduates. His thesis investigates the possibility to inform scientific-cognitive research of consciousness with phenomenological methods within a system-theoretical framework.

Learning about ‘Life’ or valuing ‘Life’?

This paper focuses upon the education of future care professionals. The current ‘standard-approach’ to teaching practice entails that educational success is assessed following the paradigm of methodological behaviourism. Our aim was to explore as to whether this approach, with its…

Learning about ‘Life’ or valuing ‘Life’

This paper focuses on the education of future care-professionals. The current ‘standard-approach’ to teaching-practice entails that educational success is assessed following the paradigm of methodological behaviourism (Bernstein’s visual pedagogy). Our aim was to explore as to whether this approach, with…