This article develops the concept of a pedagogy of care by exploring the multifaceted dimensions of compassion. Compassion is first situated both in its role for human meaningfulness and in its evolutionary roots. It is then examined as a four-stage process of noticing, feeling, acting and sense-making, and in relation to the broader concept of care. The discussion extends compassion to...
Content analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and other widely used qualitative research methods are grounded in the interpretation of (typically linguistic) meanings. Yet when studying emotions, the phenomena that are often most intriguing and complex tend to be nonlinguistic—or even resist verbalization altogether. Bodily emotional experience and expression lose much of their...