This study presents a qualitative analysis of six accounts of focusing, a method of embodied reflection. Six expert practitioners were interviewed, and each participant`s account was brought under two rounds of analysis. First, a modified descriptive phenomenological analysis was performed on a portion of the interview in which the participant described a particular focusing experience. This was followed by an interpretive phenomenological analysis of the participant`s interview as a whole. Analyses resulted in the identification of explicit and implicit themes that were constitutive of focusing experiences across participants. Several themes that were identified include: the importance of social support and validation for experiences that depart from the norms and values of materialist culture, the exquisite gentleness and receptivity of the focusers` attitude toward their experiences, and the dialogical qualities of the practice. The details and significance of the dialogue, which is a synesthetic exchange between the focuser and responses arising in her perceptual field, is explored in the discussion. Attention is paid to the fluid and at times ambiguous self-other experience suggested by the dialogue, and an archetypal framework for interpreting this dialogue is introduced. Additionally, the two phenomenological methods employed are reviewed and compared for their relative merit in the study of focusing. / McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts / Clinical Psychology / PhD / Dissertation

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction / Thomas Vontz / This phenomenological study hermeneutically explores law professors’ felt experiences within online existential lifeworld spheres. Prose, poetry, color images, and virtual journeying provide descriptive and interpretive text suggesting expansion of Gadamer’s fusion of horizonal understanding. Law professors who teach asynchronously online selected five color images from pixabay.com corresponding with the five universal existential themes: body, space, time, relationships and material things/technology (van Manen, 2014) as catalysts to conversationally explore what it feels like to transition from classroom to online instruction. Multiple phenomenological, artistic, and scientific theories prismatically amplify and explain the study’s design: Gadamer’s hermeneutical circle of understanding (1960/2006), Termes six-point spherical perspective (2016), Einstein’s closed yet unbounded universe (Egdall, 2014), and Seamon’s concept of “at homeness” (2012). Dialogical understanding of Self and Other(s) through Gadamer’s call for festival and serious play (1960/2006) is activated: The reader is invited to interact with the study text through visual and auditory web experiences. Researcher’s hermeneutic and existential retelling of the professors’ conversations begins to unfold metaphorically around a table within a virtual forest. When researcher’s previously bracketed-away prejudice for incorporating synchronous modalities into online learning erupts, professors’ longing felt for classroom home actualizes and ultimately emerges as a sixth existential dimension proposed by the researcher. A culminating journey through virtual desert in search of online home continues the retelling and metaphorically incorporates all six existential themes. Dramatic changes in researcher’s lifeworld view, ways of knowing and being, self view, self action and pedagogical development as a result of conducting the study are summarized. Future research is implicated including exploration of professors’ existentially felt experiences while teaching synchronously online and deep-mining professorial empathy toward students. Factors that impinge on all law professors’ transitioning to online instruction contextually anchor the study: 1) Legal pedagogy’s evolution from 18th Century professional skills training through the late 19th Century intrusion of legal doctrine instruction, and 20th Century paralegal skills training; 2) The American Bar Association’s 21st century mandates for graduating students with both legal skills and legal doctrine training; 3) 21st Century pedagogical Immutables (teaching online, teaching legal job skills, teaching legal doctrine, teaching to standardized tests); and 4) 21st Century Protean Challenges (institution and student demand for technology-based instruction, the Global Legal Services Industry’s hierarchical control over legal education and practice, enrollment and tuition crises, multi-cultural limitations, and the pedagogical conundrum of choosing among multiple online design and delivery modalities).

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Thesis advisor: Dorothy A. Jones / As the United States population ages, knowing and understanding the older adult couple’s experience living with chronic illness at home is significant to inform new strategies of care, and planning of resources for the improvement in the health and well-being for a potentially vulnerable population. The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the older adult couple’s experience while living with chronic illness at home by answering the following research questions: What is the life pattern manifested by an older adult couple living with chronic illness at home? Are there common themes across the life patterns of older adult couples living with chronic illness living at home? The theoretical framework guiding this study was Margaret Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness using a hermeneutic-dialectic phenomenology method. The study’s sample consisted of 14 married older adults (> 65 years of age) couples living together at home. The research method explored the experiences of the older adult couple through dialogue within the context of their social environment in all its complexity. This approach gave voice to the older adult couples’ experiences and their meaning from their perspective, which facilitated insights about each older adult couple as well as common themes across the older adult couples. Three themes emerged from the study, (1) an unfolding pattern of living meaningfully as an older adult couple with chronic illness while moving through life transitions, (2) couple interconnectedness strengthens the bonding within the older adult couple and promotes self-growth, and (3) a resonating process within the older adult couple promotes movement toward expanding consciousness. Conceptual models are proposed. The findings suggest older adult couples living with chronic illness at home strive to live meaningfully while experiencing multiple life transitions embedded in a resonating process that facilitates change. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing. / Discipline: Nursing.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogerio da Costa Neves.pdf: 14600102 bytes, checksum: 1253ccf6b9d3df808eb871b68c46f462 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-05 / The objective of this research is to investigate and understand the phenomenon of complex issue treatment held during English classes in a public school in Rio de Janeiro taking into consideration students and teachers perspective. Complex issues are topics brought to the school environment through the use of determined materials, students request and teachers decision. These issues when dealt with allow numerous unfolding that may lead teachers and students to discuss topics that do not find in society a clear and defined positioning. Thus, they may arouse unexpected reactions from the part of those involved directly or indirectly in their treatment within school boundaries. This study was carried out with an initial group of 30 teachers who declared to hold this type of activity with their students. From this initial group, a focal group was created with 18 participants. There were also 37 students involved in this study who were able to discuss these issues during their English classes. With the intent of better understanding what really happened in my teaching practice I examined the official Brazilian documents (PCN, 1998; PCN-LE, 1998; OCEM, 2006) and also school documents (PPP, 2000). Based on these documents I tried to understand the paradigmatic changes that had taken place and that made realize the unsuitability of my own background education in relation to my present teaching practice. This led me to the study of the complexity theory (Morin, 1997/2008; Moraes, 1997/2006; Mariotti, 2007) which served as a theoretical-methodological basis for this research, the grounds on which all actions, interactions, and retroactions of lived experiences took place. In search of a better understanding of my own practice I also made use of the global/localized knowledge concept (Canagarajah, 2004; Celani, 2004). The objective in using questionnaires, face-to-face interviews, e-mails, exchange of messages by means of a social network and Moodle was to discuss the relevance, appropriateness, frequency and objectives of complex issue treatment. I was able to describe and interpret the phenomenon making use of a hermeneutic-phenomenological methodological approach (van Manen, 1990; Freire, 2003, 2007). The interpretation of the phenomenon revealed the existence of only one phenomenon in which students and teachers present their perspectives on what it is to discuss complex issues. Teachers in their texts brought about four themes: precaution, choice, absence and the other. These themes signal to a number of precautions taken and choices made by teachers when developing these activities. Teachers also reveal what they perceive as to be inexistent, or insufficient when dealing with these issues. Students texts unveiled three themes: impressions, changes and the other. These themes comprise what they believe to be the role of school and the results that could be achieved by activities like the ones developed during this research / O objetivo desta tese é investigar e compreender o fenômeno da discussão de assuntos complexos durante as aulas de Inglês de uma escola pública do Rio de Janeiro na perspectiva de seus professores e alunos. Assuntos complexos (ACs) são questões levadas para o ambiente escolar por meio dos materiais utilizados, pela sugestão dos alunos e decisão dos professores, que ao serem tratadas permitem desdobramentos que suscitarão a discussão de tópicos que não possuem na sociedade um posicionamento claro e definitivo, sendo assim difícil de prever as reações que essas discussões suscitarão. A pesquisa foi conduzida com um grupo inicial de 30 professores que declararam manter este tipo de atividade com seus alunos, dos quais 18 fizeram parte um grupo focal. Os alunos, trinta e sete, eram, por sua vez, todos alunos de língua inglesa e em suas aulas tinham a oportunidade de discutir esses assuntos. Com o propósito de melhor compreender aquilo que ocorria em minha prática busquei os documentos oficiais PCN (Brasil, 1998), PCN-LE (Brasil, 1998), OCEM (Brasil, 2006) e por fim o PPP (2000) da escola onde se desenvolveu a pesquisa e a partir desses documentos procurei entender as mudanças paradigmáticas que ocorreram e que fizeram com que minha formação escolar e acadêmica não mais satisfizesse o que vivia em minha prática docente. O estudo desses documentos e das razões que levaram a uma mudança paradigmática me levaram à teoria da complexidade (Morin, 1997/2008; Moraes, 1997/2006; Mariotti, 2007) que serviu de fundamentação teórico-metodológica para esta pesquisa, o terreno onde se desenvolveram todas as ações, interações, retroações das experiências vividas por aqueles que participaram dessas experiências. Buscando uma maior compreensão de minha prática naquilo que diz respeito à discussão de assuntos complexos, lancei mão também do binômio saber global/localizado (Canagarajah, 2004, 2005/2008; Celani, 2004a). Os questionários, entrevistas presenciais e por e-mail; e as discussões mantidas em um site de relacionamentos e no Moodle, tiveram por objetivo discutir a pertinência da discussão de assuntos complexos no ambiente escolar, sua frequência, sua importância e seus objetivos. A partir da abordagem hermenêutico-fenomenológica (van Manen, 1990; Freire, 2003, 2007) pude descrever e interpretar o fenômeno. A interpretação das experiências textualizadas revelou que o fenômeno da discussão de assuntos complexos pode ser compreendido como um único fenômeno no qual professores e alunos revelam suas perspectivas sobre o mesmo. Professores revelam quatro temas principais que são: cuidados, escolhas, ausências e o outro. Esses sinalizam para um número de cuidados que professores tomam e as escolhas que têm de fazer ao desenvolverem este tipo de atividade; revelam ainda, aquilo que percebem não existir, ou ser insuficiente ao tratar desses assuntos. Por fim, expressam a importância que seus pares e seus interlocutores têm ao buscar parâmetros que determinem seus comportamentos. Os alunos, por sua vez, manifestam em seus textos três temas principais: impressões, mudanças e o outro. Neles manifestam aquilo que acreditam ser o papel da escola e o que percebem como sendo o resultado da inserção das discussões de assuntos complexos no ambiente escolar

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Taciana Oliveira Carvalho Coelho.pdf: 25426812 bytes, checksum: 2a5e8e74137c041fd6c658d08bb7628f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-19 / Faculdades Integradas Tereza D'Ávila / This study aims to describe and interpret the phenomenon critical-reflective education of literacy teachers mediated by the reading of the children s literature book A fada que tinha ideias [The fairy who had ideas] (Almeida, 1976). The objective is to give a contribution of social relevance to the transformation of those teachers pedagogical practice. Theoretical constructs about teachers criticalreflective education, as suggested by Ghedin (2002), Perrenoud (2002), Schön (2000), Freire, P. (1970/1984, 2002), Dewey (1933/1959), among others, are discussed and the children's literature book is the trigger element of the critical reflection proposed. Among the various methodological options available for research in Applied Linguistics, I discovered an innovative and attractive interpretive path in the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach (van Manen, 1990; Ricoeur, 1976, 2001; Freire, M.M., 2010, 2007a, 2007b, 1998). The experience of reading and reflecting about the book was registered in texts produced by 55 participants of Letra Viva Alfabetização, a program for literacy teachers, which is offered by the Municipal Department of Education in a city of Vale do Paraíba region, in the state of São Paulo. Based on the textualization, thematization and validation processes proposed by van Manen (1990) and also on refinement and re-signification movements proposed by Freire, M.M. (2010, 2009, 2008a, 2007a, 2006), it was possible to identify five hermeneutic-phenomenological themes that constitute the structure of the investigated phenomenon, as presented in this thesis / O objetivo desta pesquisa é descrever e interpretar o fenômeno formação críticoreflexiva de professoras-alfabetizadoras mediada pela leitura da obra A fada que tinha ideias (Almeida, 1976), visando a uma contribuição de relevância social para a transformação de sua prática pedagógica. No trabalho, são discutidos construtos teóricos sobre formação docente, reflexão e reflexão-crítica, como propostos por Ghedin (2002), Perrenoud (2002), Schön (2000), Freire, P. (1970/1984, 2002), Dewey (1933/1959), entre outros; e uma obra de literatura infanto-juvenil é utilizada como elemento desencadeador da reflexão crítica proposta. Das várias opções metodológicas existentes para a investigação em Linguística Aplicada, descobri na Abordagem Hermenêutico-Fenomenológica (van Manen, 1990; Ricoeur, 1976, 2001; Freire, M.M., 2010, 2007a, 2007b, 1998) um caminho interpretativo inovador e atraente. A experiência de leitura e reflexão sobre o livro foi registrada em textos por 55 participantes do Programa Letra Viva - Alfabetização para professores alfabetizadores, curso de formação continuada oferecido pela Secretaria de Educação da Rede Municipal de Ensino de uma cidade do Vale do Paraíba, São Paulo. Tendo como base os processos de textualização, tematização e ciclo de validação propostos por van Manen (1990) e os movimentos de refinamento e ressignificação propostos por Freire, M.M. (2010, 2009, 2008a, 2007a, 2006), foi possível identificar cinco temas hermenêutico-fenomenológicos que constituem a estrutura do fenômeno experienciado pelas participantes desta investigação, como apresentado neste trabalho

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mara Cristina Ferreira Cunha.pdf: 2569391 bytes, checksum: 871548677ccea58979e226be9826a3df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-22 / This work aims to describe and interpret the phenomenon ressignification of the English reading activity of a high school students group in a public school in the city of São Paulo in classes planned with the contribution from these students. The theoretical basis of this research relied on texts about the reading activity (Grellet, 1981/1985; Nuttall, 1982/1985; P. Freire, 1993/2007, Kleiman, 2011, 2012) and collaborative learning (P. Freire, 1970/2010; Magalhães, 2011). This research was conducted in the light of Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Approach (van Manen, 1990; Freire, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2012). Questionnaires, a reflexive reports, reflexive questions, reflexive diaries and field notes are the instruments for text collection. The interpretation of the texts points to three main themes which appear as central in this lived experience: disinterest, interest and challenges, and these themes present subthemes which express the desire to study the English language, resistance to classes based on tasks which are common in public schools, such as translation and grammar, and invest their focus in activities meaningful to their lives, and see the teacher as a partner when she/he gives them voice. Thus, this research aims to contribute to the area of teaching-learning, providing information about this English reading activity as a lived experience held in and through collaboration of the students / Este trabalho tem como objetivo descrever e interpretar o fenômeno ressignificação da atividade de leitura em língua inglesa de um grupo de alunos do ensino médio em uma escola da rede pública estadual na cidade de São Paulo em aulas planejadas a partir da contribuição dos estudantes. A fundamentação teórica dessa pesquisa está baseada em textos sobre a atividade de leitura (Grellet, 1981/1985; Nuttall, 1983/1985; P. Freire, 1993/2007, Kleiman, 2011, 2012) e sobre a aprendizagem colaborativa (P. Freire, 1970/2010; Magalhães, 2011). Esta pesquisa foi realizada à luz da Abordagem Hermenêutico-Fenomenológica (van Manen, 1990; Freire, 2009, 2010). Questionários, um relato reflexivo, questões reflexivas, diários reflexivos e notas de campo foram os instrumentos de coleta de textos. A interpretação dos textos indica que esses alunos expressam o desejo de estudar a língua inglesa, apresentam resistência à trabalhos comuns nas aulas de inglês da escola pública, como por exemplo, a tradução e o estudo calcado na gramática, investem seu foco em atividades cujo sentido é explícito para as suas vidas e veem no professor um parceiro quando este lhes dá voz. Assim, esta pesquisa pretende contribuir para a área de ensino-aprendizagem, fornecendo informações sobre esta atividade de leitura em inglês, como uma experiência vivida, realizada por meio da colaboração dos estudantes

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Santos Aires.pdf: 3913851 bytes, checksum: 7c858a5da6776260caa88d044b7a293b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-26 / This reasearch aims to present the performance of investigation of the phenomenon the identíty construction of foreign /anguage teachers from their studying experience abroad, in order to offer a knowledge base which may contribute to a deeper understanding of how foreign language teachers construct their identity and how they deal with identity features, which can be important both for the formation of future teachers, as for the preparation of new exchange students, which are issues of social relevance. The repertoire defined to theoretically support this research is based on complexity (Morin, 2007, 2008; Morin; Le Moigne, 2000), which assumes the non-fragmented, non-reducionist, non-linear, dialogic, recursive and hologramatic traits of human relations and experiences which are interconnected and integrated with an alive, dynamic and systemic reality. This study is also carried out and articulated with identity and identity construction concepts on their linguistic and emocional aspects (Norton, ;. 1997; Revuz, 1998/2006; Duff; Uchida, 1997; Hall, 2003; Moita Lopes; Bastos, " 2010; Pennycook, 2006, 2011; Rajagopalan, 2003, 2004, 2006; Signorini, 1998, 1998a, 2006; Pavlenko, 2002). Metodologically, the show is organized based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach (van Manen, 1990; F eire, 1998, 2010, 2012, 2012a), a qualitative methodological orientation which focuses on describing and interpreting phenomena of human experience: ilfl order to investigate their essence and which may establish an interesting dialogue with the principies of complexity. The research participants were three teachers: twa of them were English teachers (although one of them gave up the study before concluding the investigation), and one French teacher. To achieve its objectives, the curriculum vitae, narratives and the hermeneutic conversations were used as instruments for gathering texts. The nature of the collected material enabled itto be refined and reframed until hermeneutic-phenomenological themes were found: search, immersion, be/onging and self-know/edge which are related to dreqm, improvement, opportunity, credibility, fluency, findings, necessity, adaptapil!ty, readaptability and autonomy - which are also described and interpreted in this study as subthemes / This reasearch aims to present the performance of investigation of the phenomenon the identíty construction of foreign /anguage teachers from their studying experience abroad, in order to offer a knowledge base which may contribute to a deeper understanding of how foreign language teachers construct their identity and how they deal with identity features, which can be important both for the formation of future teachers, as for the preparation of new exchange students, which are issues of social relevance. The repertoire defined to theoretically support this research is based on complexity (Morin, 2007, 2008; Morin; Le Moigne, 2000), which assumes the non-fragmented, non-reducionist, non-linear, dialogic, recursive and hologramatic traits of human relations and experiences which are interconnected and integrated with an alive, dynamic and systemic reality. This study is also carried out and articulated with identity and identity construction concepts on their linguistic and emocional aspects (Norton, ;. 1997; Revuz, 1998/2006; Duff; Uchida, 1997; Hall, 2003; Moita Lopes; Bastos, " 2010; Pennycook, 2006, 2011; Rajagopalan, 2003, 2004, 2006; Signorini, 1998, 1998a, 2006; Pavlenko, 2002). Metodologically, the show is organized based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach (van Manen, 1990; F eire, 1998, 2010, 2012, 2012a), a qualitative methodological orientation which focuses on describing and interpreting phenomena of human experience: ilfl order to investigate their essence and which may establish an interesting dialogue with the principies of complexity. The research participants were three teachers: twa of them were English teachers (although one of them gave up the study before concluding the investigation), and one French teacher. To achieve its objectives, the curriculum vitae, narratives and the hermeneutic conversations were used as instruments for gathering texts. The nature of the collected material enabled itto be refined and reframed until hermeneutic-phenomenological themes were found: search, immersion, be/onging and self-know/edge which are related to dreqm, improvement, opportunity, credibility, fluency, findings, necessity, adaptapil!ty, readaptability and autonomy - which are also described and interpreted in this study as subthemes

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology study was to explore and describe the meaning employees attribute to the lived experiences of returning to work after cancer treatment. Semi-structured interviews were held with eight participants and a thematic data analysis method was used. The results indicate that cancer survivors experience various challenges that make it difficult to function as they did before the diagnosis when they return to work. A critical hermeneutical reflection against the literature followed the structural analysis and resulted in a contextual framework that incorporated the individual and organisational perspective on the various influences involved in supporting cancer survivors to maintain their wellbeing when they return to work. Four phases, repression, comprehension, activation and reintegration, were identified when they tried to cope/adjust on their return to work. The corresponding forms of organisational support they expected through these phases were labelled motivation, information, navigation and stabilisation. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sergio Miguel Gartner Pais de Oliveira.pdf: 3625928 bytes, checksum: 1b2f05e41d09488d59d288948302155a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aims at describing and interpreting the collaborative writing in English (understood as a human experience phenomenon) developed by 9th grade students of a private Elementary School in Belo Horizonte (MG), from the complex thought perspective. The research involves the accomplishment of two writing assignments undertaken on the Google Docs plataform which uses Web 2.0 resources and whose goals were to motivate group work, practise writing skills in EFL, develop creativity, reflection, discussion and problem solving. The texts used for the interpretation of the phenomenon were collected from four online questionnaires. Records and comments written on students' work also served as textual material to understand the nature of the phenomenon studied. This research is primarily based on Morin`s notion of Complex Thought (1990, 2009, 2010) which can be understood as an open, inclusive and flexible thinking that sets a new look at the world, trying to understand the constant changes of the real world. The new paradigm dialogues with the opposite, with multiplicity, randomness, and uncertainty. Grounded on Complexity as the starting point, other theoretical components are also used to help the investigation, considering collaborative writing in teaching L2, procedural writing models, digital context of Web 2.0 and collaborative learning. These constructs interact with each other and are important for understanding the context of the research, as well as its characteristics and uniqueness. To conduct this research, a qualitative methodology is adopted, specifically, the Hermeneutic- Phenomenological Approach, according to Freire‟s (1998, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) and van Manen`s (1990) perspectives. This study reveals that the collaborative writing in digital context is structured around three comprehensive themes environment, interaction, tasks which are subdivided in subthemes that unveil the nature of the phenomenon under investigation. Based on the research undertaken it is possible to assert that collaborative writing in the digital environment can lead to new paths to a theory of writing in L2, engendering collaborative projects focused on writing in a foreign language. This study demonstrates that learners can develop communication and cooperation skills, as well as the development of critical thinking when there is a conducive learning environment for interaction / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo descrever e interpretar a escrita colaborativa em inglês (entendida como fenômeno da experiência humana) desenvolvida em ambiente on-line, por alunos de um 9o ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma instituição privada de Belo Horizonte (MG), sob a ótica do Pensamento Complexo. O estudo envolve a realização de duas tarefas de escrita em língua inglesa realizada por grupos de alunos na plataforma Google Docs, que utiliza recursos da tecnologia web 2.0, as quais visavam motivar o trabalho em grupo, exercitar a habilidade de escrita em língua inglesa de forma colaborativa, promover a criatividade, reflexão, discussão e resolução de problemas. Os textos utilizados para a interpretação do fenômeno foram coletados de quatro questionários on-line. Os registros e comentários feitos nos próprios trabalhos dos alunos serviram, também, como material textual para entender a natureza do fenômeno estudado. A realização deste estudo baseia-se no pensamento complexo de Morin (1990, 2009, 2010), que pode ser entendido como um pensamento aberto, abrangente e flexível que configura em um novo olhar sobre o mundo, procurando entender as mudanças constantes do mundo real. O novo paradigma dialoga com os opostos, com a multiplicidade, a imprevisibilidade e as incertezas. Partindo do referencial da Complexidade, agrega-se ao estudo de componentes teóricos sobre a escrita colaborativa no ensino de L2, modelos de escrita processual, contexto digital da web 2.0 e aprendizagem colaborativa. Esses construtos dialogam entre si e são importantes para se compreender o contexto da pesquisa, sua característica e singularidade. Para realizar esta investigação, adota-se a metodologia de cunho qualitativa; especificamente, a abordagem hermenêuticofenomenológica, a partir da visão de Freire (1998, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) e van Manen (1990). Este estudo revela que a escrita colaborativa em contexto digital se estrutura em torno de três grandes temas ambiente, interação, tarefas os quais se subdividem em subtemas que, assim, revelam a natureza do fenômeno investigado. Com base na pesquisa realizada pode-se afirmar que a escrita colaborativa no meio digital pode trazer novos caminhos para a(s) teoria(s) de escrita em L2 e para o engendramento de projetos colaborativos com foco na escrita em língua estrangeira. Este estudo demonstra que aprendizes podem desenvolver capacidades de comunicação e cooperação com ajuda da tecnologia, bem como o desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico quando há um ambiente de aprendizagem propício para a interação