I have done research into special pedagogical topics by using a phenomenological approach. For example, my book Childhood’s Secretsis based on hundreds of experiential accounts that I have gathered from young people and adults about their experience of early secrets in their childhood-and the consequences for self-identity, inwardness, independence, etc.
Other topics I have written about are the pedagogy of recognition, naming, contact, etc.
——Max van Manen
範梅南在他的回顧中曾經強調了具有特色的一些教育學主題。這些主題有些在其他章節中已經做過討論,尚未討論過的這些特色主題對於理解範梅南現象學教育學思想仍然是極其重要的。比如,教學情調,他曾寫過一本專著《教學情調》,關於兒童的秘密,也出版了一本專著《兒童的秘密》。另外一些主題也都有著重要的教育意義,如合適即好、可能性與希望、驚奇、認同、教育學的看、紀律、教育氣氛、榜樣,等等。對這些特色主題的討論也增強著我們對於現象學教育學語言特色的理解以及敘事性與故事性中隱含哲理的啟悟。