Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Qualitative research methodologies (with particular emphasis on phenomenology, interpretive studies, narrative)
• Interpersonal relations and personality (applications of Enneagram system)
• Human development and consciousness
• Cross-cultural studies of higher education
• Sociology of culture, music, and Eastern religions.

Professional Memberships:

Honors and Awards:

• Honorary Rank, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of New Brunswick, conferred at Encaenia, May 29, 2008.
• 2005 University Teaching Scholar, University of New Brunswick, selected by committee of the Vice-President Academic and ratified by the Board of Governors, 3-year term.
• 1995 Instructional Leadership Award, presented by the Canadian Association of Atlantic Universities, September 1995 (a singular regional award among nineteen institutions of higher education).
• Allan P. Stuart Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of New Brunswick. Elected by Senate Quality of Teaching Committee, and awarded at Encaenia, May 1984. (one-time career award).
  

Publications:

• Rehorick, David Allan & Bentz, Valerie Malhotra (eds.), Transformative Phenomenology: Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds and Professional Practice. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield), June 2008, 250pp.
• "Transformative Phenomenology: A Scholarly Scaffold for Practitioners." (with V. Bentz), in D. Rehorick and V. Bentz (eds.) Transformative Phenomenology: Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2008, pp. 3-31.
• "Male Experiences of Pregnancy: Bridging Phenomenological and Empirical Insights." (with L. Nugent), in D. Rehorick and V. Bentz (eds.) Transformative Phenomenology: Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2008, pp. 33-39.
• Rehorick, David & Taylor, Gail. Creating Renaissance College: An Experiential Record. Fredericton, N.B.: Distributed through Renaissance College, ISBN 1-55131-067-8, 51pp. (qualitative research study on the origin and development of Renaissance College), March 2001
• "The Place of Max Weber in the Post-Structure Writings of Talcott Parsons." (with William Buxton), In A. Javier Trevino (ed.), Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 pp. 29 - 59
• "Risk to React, Then Commit: QuickWrite as an Integrated Classroom Learning Strategy." (with Bill Perry), Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2001, pp. 69-85
• "Teaching Phenomenologically." (ed.) Special Issue, Views and Reviews, Human Studies, Vol. 18, October 1995. "The Phenomenology of 'Doing' Phenomenology: The Experience of Teaching and Learning Together" by Francine Hultgren, and "Thoughtful Incoherence: First Encounters with the Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Domain" by David Rehorick & Gail Taylor, pp. 367-414
• Shaking the Foundations of Lifeworld: A Phenomenological Account of an Earthquake Experience." Human Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1986, pp. 379-391

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Professional Experience:

Other Professional Activities:

• Professor of Sociology (1974-2007), The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
• Founding faculty and first Director of International Internships, Renaissance College (first undergraduate leadership studies program in Canada), 2001-04.
• Founding faculty and Fellow in Comparative Culture, Miyazaki International College, Japan (1994-97).
• Senior Research Associate, Boston University, 1980-81.