Abstract
As a teacher, I have observed students in my classes being so engrossed and absorbed in what they are doing that they do not notice the time that is passing. When I hear someone say, ‘Oh, we are already done!’ or ‘The class is already over?’, this is an indication to me that they have not been aware of the time as it was passing. It is precisely this unawareness of time passing that we attempt to capture by using the construction of the verb ‘to be’ with the past participle of the verbs ‘engross’ or ‘absorb’. We can think of the students to be in a state where they do something, like conducting a science investigation but where they are not aware of the situation as such.
Access provided by Autonomous University of Puebla. Download to read the full chapter text
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Sense Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Roth, WM. (2012). On Being and Presence. In: Roth, WM. (eds) First-Person Methods. Practice of Research Method, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_8
Publisher Name: SensePublishers, Rotterdam
Online ISBN: 978-94-6091-831-5
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)