3 Wondering as research attitude
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Introduction
Wondering is an attitude to approach research material on the grounds of its very existence. Its starting point is to encourage the researcher to pose questions on why something has been presented or analyzed in a particular way; what needs to be in place for a particular idea, which appears obvious or simple, to be possible, and indeed, thinkable; and what role do those ideas and thoughts play on the way the world is portrayed? It invites the researcher to focus on the details from which singularities in ways of thinking (Veyne 2010) can be analyzed. As Salter points out in Chapter 2, it also pays attention to the intertextuality of context; not ...
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