Journal articles: 'Qualitative phenomenological research'

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Bliss, Linda A. "Phenomenological Research." International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology 7, no. 3 (July 2016): 14–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijavet.2016070102.

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The purpose of this article is to introduce readers to phenomenological inquiry, an inductive qualitative research approach that is rooted in the philosophical proposition that researchers can gain valuable insight into the structure of how people understand their experiences. It is assumed that there is a structure or essence to the meaning people make of their experiences that can be described and that human experiences are spiritual, physical, emotional, psychological, temporal, spatial, etc. Perceptive descriptions of these experiences can inform more humane workplace policy and helpful new theories. To develop such descriptions, researchers must challenge their own and a priori theoretical understandings of the experience. The article presents information about lifeworld, epoche, and essence; major tenets of the approach. Various ways of understanding and conducting phenomenological inquiry are also presented, including examples of how proponents of various viewpoints discuss methodological concerns. Further, the article provides guidelines for conducting phenomenological research, illustrated with examples of online accessible phenomenological studies in a variety of fields that were conducted from different viewpoints. The article stresses the importance of researchers being knowledgeable about the various viewpoints in order to be articulate about their own phenomenological methods decisions.

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Snelgrove, Sherrill Ray. "Conducting qualitative longitudinal research using interpretative phenomenological analysis." Nurse Researcher 22, no. 1 (September 24, 2014): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr.22.1.20.e1277.

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Hood, Rick. "Combining phenomenological and critical methodologies in qualitative research." Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice 15, no. 2 (May 20, 2015): 160–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325015586248.

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Giorgi, Amedeo. "A Phenomenological Perspective on Certain Qualitative Research Methods." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 25, no. 2 (1994): 190–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916294x00034.

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AbstractIn this article the phenomonelogical approach to qualitative research is compared with certain other qualitative approaches following other paradigms. The thesis is that a deepened understanding of phenomenological philosophy can provide the alternative framework that many of these authors have been seeking. The comparison with other approaches is made in terms of theoretical and methodical consistency. Theoretically, the argument is that the situation known as "mixed discourse" exists because practitioners have not sufficiently freed themselves from the criteria and practices of traditional paradigms in which most qualitative researchers have been trained. The shift from the collection of numerical data to linguistic data takes place without appropriate shift in theoretical context. This state of affairs should be overcome in order to strengthen qualitative research. On the other hand, many qualitative researchers carry on practices that seem to be analogous to phenomenological prescriptions which are explicitly usually misunderstood or resisted when stated directly and generically. Thus, greater theoretical clarity and consistency as well as deeper reflection or better utilization of imaginative possibilities still seem to be called for in order to bring better theoretical conceptualization and more consistent practices to qualitative research.

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Giorgi, Amedeo. "The Question of Validity in Qualitative Research." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 33, no. 1 (2002): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916202320900392.

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AbstractIt seems that many qualitative researchers have still not contextualized the role of validity in qualitative analysis.This article enumerates three factors that must be taken into account: (1) The philosophy of science within which one works, (2) the discipline to which one belongs, and (3) the subfield of specialization that one pursues. Most researchers have encountered the question of validity within the context of empirical science, but validity does not have the same role within a phenomenological philosophy of science. Within the discipline of psychology, certain subfields ignore the validity issue for good reasons (e.g., experimentation in psychophysics) and other subfields specialize in developing strategies for validity. This article analyzes the reasons that the specialty of "test construction" focuses so strongly on validity issues and concludes that phenomenological qualitative research is not at all similar to the situation one finds in test construction. Rather, phenomenological qualitative research is closer to experimental situations and so the validity issue is not as pressing as is often supposed. The article ends with two different Husserlian perspectives on a theory of knowledge.

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Howard, Katie, Napoleon Katsos, and Jenny Gibson. "Using interpretative phenomenological analysis in autism research." Autism 23, no. 7 (January 23, 2019): 1871–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361318823902.

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Qualitative studies within autism research are gaining prominence, yet there is little evidence about the usefulness of particular qualitative approaches in reflecting the perspectives and experiences of autistic participants. This short report serves to introduce interpretative phenomenological analysis as one among a range of qualitative approaches to autism research. We argue that certain features of interpretative phenomenological analysis, including its commitment to an equality of voice and researcher reflexivity, may help to illuminate the experiences of autistic individuals. The procedures of interpretative phenomenological analysis are presented through the lens of 10 studies into autistic people’s experiences, and a case is made for the suitability of this approach within qualitative autism research.

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Applebaum, Marc. "Phenomenological Psychological Research as Science." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 43, no. 1 (2012): 36–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916212x632952.

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Abstract Part of teaching the descriptive phenomenological psychological method is to assist students in grasping their previously unrecognized assumptions regarding the meaning of “science.” This paper is intended to address a variety of assumptions that are encountered when introducing students to the descriptive phenomenological psychological method pioneered by Giorgi. These assumptions are: 1) That the meaning of “science” is exhausted by empirical science, and therefore qualitative research, even if termed “human science,” is more akin to literature or art than methodical, scientific inquiry; 2) That as a primarily aesthetic, poetic enterprise human scientific psychology need not attempt to achieve a degree of rigor and epistemological clarity analogous (while not equivalent) to that pursued by natural scientists; 3) That “objectivity” is a concept belonging to natural science, and therefore human science ought not to strive for objectivity because this would require “objectivizing” the human being; 4) That qualitative research must always adopt an “interpretive” approach, description being seen as merely a mode of interpretation. These assumptions are responded to from a perspective drawing primarily upon Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, but also upon Eagleton’s analysis of aestheticism.

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Emiliussen, Jakob, Søren Engelsen, Regina Christiansen, and Søren Harnow Klausen. "We are all in it!: Phenomenological Qualitative Research and Embeddedness." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20 (January 1, 2021): 160940692199530. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406921995304.

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In recent decades, phenomenological concepts and methodological ideals have been adopted by qualitative researchers. Several influential strands of what we will refer to as Phenomenological Research (PR) have emerged. We will call into question whether PR has been sufficiently sensitive to the issue of the prerequisites, or basic conditions, for doing phenomenological research. The practical implementation of phenomenological key concepts is important in working with phenomenology as a research methodology. Core concepts such as “bracketing” seems to be particularly important in PR. The question we would like to raise is not whether “bracketing” is possible, or to what extent, nor how it should be understood. Rather, we wish to illuminate the prerequisites for bracketing itself. We believe that a fuller recognition of the embeddedness of research practices like PR does have some broadly practical implications, which we shall expand upon in the present article.

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De Castro, Alberto. "Introduction to Giorgi's existential phenomenological research method." Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa 6, no. 11 (August 1, 2018): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.33361/rpq.2018.v.6.n.11.228.

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Abstract: This article offers a brief introduction to the theoretical bases on which Amededo Giorgi supports his research work with a phenomenological existential approach. In the same way, it shows the different steps followed by that author in order to analyze the collected data in a research.Keywords: Phenomenological approach; Phenomenology; Qualitative research; Ideographic analysis. Introdução ao método de pesquisa fenomenológica existencial de GiorgiResumo: Este artigo oferece uma breve introdução às bases teórias sobre as quais Amededo Giorgi apóia seu trabalho de pesquisa com uma abordagem existencial fenomenológica. Da mesma forma, mostra os diferentes passos seguidos por esse autor, a fim de analisar os dados coletados em uma pesquisa.Palavras-chave: Abordagem fenomenológica; Fenomenologia; Pesquisa Qualitativa; Análise Ideográfica.

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Gullickson, Terri. "Review of Psychological Qualitative Research from a Phenomenological Perspective." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 39, no. 11 (November 1994): 1064–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/034254.

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Aanstoos, Christopher M. "Review of Psychological qualitative research from a phenomenological perspective." Humanistic Psychologist 22, no. 1 (1994): 117–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0101487.

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Adams, Catherine, and Michael Anders van Manen. "Teaching Phenomenological Research and Writing." Qualitative Health Research 27, no. 6 (April 17, 2017): 780–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732317698960.

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In this article, we describe our approach and philosophical methodology of teaching and doing phenomenology. The human science seminar that we offer involves participants in the primary phenomenological literature as well as in a variety of carefully engaged writing exercises. Each seminar participant selects a personal phenomenological project that aims at producing a publishable research paper. We show how the qualitative methodology of hermeneutic phenomenology requires of its practitioner a sensitivity and attitudinal disposition that has to be internalized and that cannot be captured in a procedural or step-by-step program. Our experience is that seminar participants become highly motivated and committed to their phenomenological project while involved in the rather intense progression of lectures, workshop activities, readings, and discussions.

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Peterson, Gerald. "Challenges of Qualitative Inquiry and the Need for Follow-Up in Descriptive Science." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 25, no. 2 (1994): 174–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916294x00025.

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AbstractThe present article explores problems of descriptive reporting, relativism, and the lack of systematic follow-up of qualitative research. Such issues are discussed in relation to components of phenomenologically based research reports, with emphasis on the articulation of the research approach, and steps to facilitate validation. The value of a descriptive science derived from phenomenological principles is discussed as forming a common ground for initial qualitative inquiry, while providing a critically reflective base upon which rational consensus can be developed. I suggest that the values of follow-up, tentativeness, and humility in research reporting, and a rational framework of critical validation, constitute a common core of science. In addition, phenomenological tenets are discussed as providing a corrective to the uncritical search for absolutes, or the "anything counts" conception of relativistic movements.

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Fisher, William P., and A. Jackson Stenner. "Integrating qualitative and quantitative research approaches via the phenomenological method." International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 5, no. 1 (April 2011): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/mra.2011.5.1.89.

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Driessnack, Martha, Valmi D. Sousa, and Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes. "An overview of research designs relevant to nursing: part 2: qualitative research designs." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 15, no. 4 (August 2007): 684–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692007000400025.

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This second article of the series An Overview of Research Designs Relevant to Nursing presents qualitative research designs. Phenomenological, ground theory, ethnography, narrative inquiry, and other related qualitative-related research methodologies are described. In addition, the importance of qualitative research as groundwork for quantitative studies is discussed. This link between qualitative and quantitative research is fundamental to promote evidence-based nursing practice.

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Olt, Phillip Allen, and Eric D. Teman. "Un[bracketed]: phenomenological polyethnography." Qualitative Research Journal 19, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-12-2018-0001.

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Purpose Due to the limitations to the purpose and practice of both phenomenological and duoethnographic research methodologies, the purpose of this paper is to propose phenomenological polyethnography as a hybrid qualitative methodology, which would guide skilled researchers in conducting phenomenological exploration of an emergent experience as insiders. Design/methodology/approach This study is an applied a hybridization approach to phenomenology and duoethnography as two distinct qualitative research traditions. Findings Employing a poststructuralist perspective, researcher-participants with relevant difference co-investigate a phenomenological question together. Borrowing elements from both hermeneutic phenomenology and duoethnography, this methodology involves the consideration of a phenomenon, the use of authors with relevant difference who have both special insight into that phenomenon as participants and skill as qualitative researchers, the intentional collection of prereflective data while all researcher-participants are experiencing the phenomenon or immediately after, the subsequent reflection upon and interpretation of the phenomenon as it was similarly and differently experienced by the researcher-participants, and the description of both the essence and meaning of the phenomenon. Research limitations/implications This new, hybrid qualitative methodology will enable researchers to more efficiently analyze and disseminate the research of insider knowledge on emergent phenomena in higher education and other settings. Originality/value As a new methodology, it may be used to investigate events and provide rich, thick description in a way not before seen.

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Yeomans, Liz, Corina Daba-Buzoianu, and Loredana Ivan. "Qualitative Research in Communication. Introductory Remarks." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 17, no. 3 (February 17, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2015.3.164.

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<p>The 20th century’s epistemological turn in social sciences (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994; Punch, 2013) acknowledged the importance of qualitative research methods. The need for this turn was also pointed out by Habermas (1979), who noticed that the way data was collected in social sciences affected the analysis and data interpretation. Research gained a comprehensive character and proposed a phenomenological approach of reality (Guba & Lincoln, 1994; Willig, 2008; Lindlof & Taylor, 2011). Nowadays, we notice a “more confident community of scholars” whose earlier endeavors had “opened up the study of cultures, meanings, symbolic performances, and social practices” (Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. xi).</p>

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Giorgi, Amedeo. "The Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of the Phenomenological Method as a Qualitative Research Procedure." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 28, no. 2 (1997): 235–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916297x00103.

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AbstractThis article points out the criteria necessary in order for a qualitative scientific method to qualify itself as phenomenological in a descriptive Husserlian sense. One would have to employ (1) description (2) within the attitude of the phenomenological reduction, and (3) seek the most invariant meanings for a context. The results of this analysis are used to critique an article by Klein and Westcott (1994), that presents a typology of the development of the phenomenological psychological method.

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Christensen, Martin. "The empirical-phenomenological research framework: Reflecting on its use." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 7, no. 12 (July 30, 2017): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v7n12p81.

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Background and objective: Descriptive phenomenology when used within the tradition of Husserl offers the qualitative researcher a unique perspective into the lived experience of the phenomena in question. Methods of data analysis are often seen as the theoretical framework for which these studies are then focused. However, what is not realised is that the data analysis tool is merely that a tool for which to delineate the individual narratives. What is often missing is a research framework for which to structure the actual study. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to offer a reflective account of how the empirical-phenomenological framework shaped and informed a descriptive phenomenological study looking at the lived experience of male nursing students as they journey though the under-graduate nursing programme.Methods: A reflective narrative was used to examine and explore how the empirical-phenomenological framework can be used to support method construction within a descriptive phenomenological study.Results and conclusions: The empirical-phenomenological research framework aims to provide a practical method for understanding and valuing the range and depth of descriptive phenomenology, in particular the lived experience. Used in combination with specific phenomenological data analysis models the empirical-phenomenological framework is structured to support the qualitative research process.

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Nigar, Nashid. "Hermeneutic Phenomenological Narrative Enquiry: A Qualitative Study Design." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 1 (December 24, 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1001.02.

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This paper explains why it is necessary to employ two apparently disparate qualitative methodologies to address multidimensional research objectives of a complex phenomenon: non-native English-speaking teachers’ (NNESTs) professional identity. This paper proposes a combined methodology of narrative enquiry and hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry to construct understanding in terms of what NNESTs describe as their experiences of professional identity development and the researcher’s interpretations of their thickly layered data. This proposed methodology is the adopted version of the Methodology chapter of a confirmed Australian doctoral project. The purpose of this paper is to show how, by employing the two methodologies, the author intends to capture individual teachers’ meaning makings and their common phenomena of professional identity formation. With justification, the paper includes components of a qualitative research design: research paradigm, methodological approach, and the methods.

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Agarwal, Ankit, and Peter John Sandiford. "Fictionalizing dialogue: interpretative phenomenological analysis in organizational research." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 16, no. 1 (January 25, 2021): 218–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-01-2020-1885.

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PurposeThis paper proposes a dialogical approach for analyzing and presenting Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) data in organizational research.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores the story behind a story, showing how qualitative research can be fictionalized and reflexively framed in contemporary organizational settings, illustrated by IPA research conducted by the authors, into selection interviewing in Australia. Drawing from researchers' narrative notes that reflexively interpret interview data in narrative form, the data were re-interpreted in fictionalized dialogical form, enabling findings to be analyzed and presented more interactively.FindingsThe application of new interpretative techniques, like fictionalized dialogue, contributes to a richer interpretation of phenomena in qualitative organizational and management research, not limited to IPA studies.Originality/valueFictionalized dialogue brings to the surface an additional level of analysis that contributes to thematic analysis in a novel manner, also serving as a communicative tool.

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Minami, Nathan A. "Using Phenomenological Research to Drive Dynamic Modeling." International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems 4, no. 2 (April 2012): 60–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jats.2012040104.

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One of the most difficult aspects in mathematical modeling and simulation is developing data to drive models and learning. This is particularly difficult when the subject involves intangible variables and concepts such as stress and perceptions that are difficult to ascribe a quantitative value to. This paper provides a description of how qualitative data collected during in depth phenomenological interviews with subject matter experts can be used to drive models. It also provides a case study of insurgency warfare and coalition and Afghan National Government performance during the last ten years. The U.S. government has spent more than $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan. Despite the employment of these resources, the goal of creating stability in the country has not been achieved. Twenty U.S. Army officers with six or more months of experience in Afghanistan were selected by random choice from a specific group. The participants were then interviewed to determine the meaning of their experiences in fighting an insurgency. Data analysis included organizing responses by question to identify the frequency of trends, patterns, and themes; and development of textural and structural descriptions of resource allocation and stability within the context of this study. Data was then transformed to create look-up tables that can be used to model, calibrate, and ascribe quantitative values to various variables in a dynamic insurgency model. A proof of concept model was then created to demonstrate the potential utility and power behind a model that combines the qualities of quantitative mathematical science and qualitative research methodology.

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Alase, Abayomi. "The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): A Guide to a Good Qualitative Research Approach." International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies 5, no. 2 (April 30, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.5n.2p.9.

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As a research methodology, qualitative research method infuses an added advantage to the exploratory capability that researchers need to explore and investigate their research studies. Qualitative methodology allows researchers to advance and apply their interpersonal and subjectivity skills to their research exploratory processes. However, in a study with an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach, the advantageous elements of the study quadruple because of the bonding relationship that the approach allows for the researchers to develop with their research participants. Furthermore, as a qualitative research approach, IPA gives researchers the best opportunity to understand the innermost deliberation of the ‘lived experiences’ of research participants. As an approach that is ‘participant-oriented’, interpretative phenomenological analysis approach allows the interviewees (research participants) to express themselves and their ‘lived experience’ stories the way they see fit without any distortion and/or prosecution. Therefore, utilizing the IPA approach in a qualitative research study reiterates the fact that its main objective and essence are to explore the ‘lived experiences’ of the research participants and allow them to narrate the research findings through their ‘lived experiences’. As such, this paper discusses the historical background of phenomenology as both a theory and a qualitative research approach, an approach that has transitioned into an interpretative analytical tradition. Furthermore, as a resource tool to novice qualitative researchers, this paper provides a step-by-step comprehensive guide to help prepare and equip researchers with ways to utilize and apply the IPA approach in their qualitative research studies. More importantly, this paper also provides an advanced in-depth analysis and usability application for the IPA approach in a qualitatively conducted research study. As such, this paper completely contrasted itself from many books and articles that are written with the premise of providing useful and in-depth information on the subject-matter (phenomenology, as a qualitative approach).

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Konecki, Krzysztof T. "Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis." Qualitative Sociology Review 15, no. 3 (July 31, 2019): 6–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.3.01.

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I would like to present the possibility of broadening the traditional methodological and technical skills of researcher and analyst, but also the intellectual capacity of the researcher associated with combining data, categorizing, linking categories, as well as the interpretation of the causes and consequences of the emergence of certain social phenomena. Some methodologies, methods, and research techniques are more conducive to creative conceptual and interpretive solutions. Therefore, I describe the serendipity phenomenon in such methodologies as grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenological research, and contemplative inquiry. The problem of intuition in qualitative research will be also described in the paper. There will be presented also some suggestions how to be creative in qualitative research. From the review of issues of creativity in qualitative research we can derive the following conclusions: Creativity in qualitative research depends on the strength of a priori conceptualization and stiffness of the adapted methods of research and analysis. If the methodology is more flexible (as the methodology of grounded theory), the researcher can get to phenomena that he/she has not realized and which are still scantily explored in his/her field of expertise. The phenomenological and contemplative approaches allow the use of the investigator’s feelings and experience as they appear in the studied phenomena, which usually does not take place in objectifying and positivistic research. The investigator may therefore consciously use these methodologies and approaches that foster creativity. The researchers can improve their skills in thinking and creative action by doing some methodical exercises (journal writing, writing poetry as a summary of the collected data, the use of art as representation of the phenomenon, the use of meditation, observation of the body feelings, humor, etc.).

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VanScoy, Amy, and Solveig Beyza Evenstad. "Interpretative phenomenological analysis for LIS research." Journal of Documentation 71, no. 2 (March 9, 2015): 338–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-09-2013-0118.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) for the library and information science (LIS) community, as this method has only recently been used for exploring experiences of various phenomena related to LIS. Design/methodology/approach – IPA is discussed within the phenomenological tradition. Two examples of recent IPA studies are examined in parallel to show application of the IPA method. Issues and challenges of applying IPA to LIS research questions are discussed. Findings – IPA is an alternative phenomenological method, adding to the repertoire of qualitative methods used for LIS research. It was an effective method for exploring experience among information professionals: it was equally suitable for studying reference and information service work for academic library professionals and burnout experience for information and communication technology workers. Originality/value – Only a few LIS studies have used IPA and no discussion or evaluation of the method has been published for this field. This paper provides a discussion of the method for LIS researchers interested in this emerging phenomenological method.

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Hamilton, Susan Wilson. "Using Phenomenological Interviewing: A Qualitative Research Method for People-Plant Studies." HortScience 32, no. 4 (July 1997): 605C—605. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.32.4.605c.

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Phenomenological interviewing is a research approach used extensively and successfully in the social sciences and has implications for those working with people-plant interactions. Although many research methods are available for horticulturists to use in obtaining information about a target audience, most methods used (e.g., surveys and questionnaires) are quantitative in nature in that they provide numerical data on statistical generalizable patterns. Phenomenological interviewing allows investigators, through open-ended interview questions, to obtain more in-depth data than traditional quantitative techniques. Transcribed interview tapes become the data from which analysis and interpretation follows. “Coding” the data by searching for words, phrases, patterns of behavior, subjects' ways of thinking, and events which are repeated and stand out classify and categorize the data helping with its interpretation and write up. Writing up such data must develop how you interpret what you found by carefully integrating themes that support a thesis and create or augment theoretical explanations. This research method allows investigators to understand and capture the points of view of the participants without predetermining those points of view through prior selection of questionnaire or survey categories.

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Willis, Danny G., Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, Kathleen Knafl, and Marlene Z. Cohen. "Distinguishing Features and Similarities Between Descriptive Phenomenological and Qualitative Description Research." Western Journal of Nursing Research 38, no. 9 (July 9, 2016): 1185–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193945916645499.

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Nicholls, Claire D. "Innovating the Craft of Phenomenological Research Methods Through Mindfulness." Methodological Innovations 12, no. 2 (May 2019): 205979911984097. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059799119840977.

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To conduct qualitative social research requires not only a declarative knowledge of the research methods and methodology, but also a set of honed practical, applied skills. For beginning researchers, particularly those undertaking phenomenological research, the skills of bracketing, the phenomenological reductions and having an awareness of one’s positionality or relationship to their chosen research methods, participants and contexts is of significant importance. More generally, these skills are also required in other qualitative research disciplines under the guise of reflexivity or critical reflective practice. Regardless, these are notoriously slippery and require more than prior reading to translate from theory and philosophy into practice. There is literature which also identifies and highlights the disparity between theory, skill development and practice; however, these practicalities of how one can bracket or bridle and undertake reductions require further elaboration and guidance for how researchers can develop these applied skills of research. In this article, I propose and demonstrate that the therapeutic tradition of mindfulness as specifically practised in dialectical behaviour therapy can be used to de-mystify the practices of reflexivity and work specifically within the tradition of phenomenological reduction and bracketing. I also assert that this innovation can provide a practical tool to craft qualitative and phenomenological research and make achievable the original philosophical ideas which underpin phenomenological research. I begin by focusing on the theory of bracketing and reduction from the philosophic tradition of phenomenology as a framework for research methodology and methods, and then introduce the practical skill of mindfulness as prescribed in dialectical behaviour therapy as an innovation which can assist the researcher in developing these skills. I finish by illustrating the usefulness of mindfulness in undertaking phenomenological research drawing on examples from a current research project.

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MOLLER, Cínthia Vieira, and Celana Cardoso ANDRADE. "A sexualidade feminina pela perspectiva da Gestalt-terapia: uma pesquisa qualitativa-fenomenológica." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 17, no. 1 (2011): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/rag.2011v17n1.2.

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Kakkori, Leena. "Hermeneutics and Phenomenology Problems When Applying Hermeneutic Phenomenological Method in Educational Qualitative Research." Paideusis 18, no. 2 (October 16, 2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1072329ar.

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Hermeneutic phenomenology is a research method used in qualitative research in the fields of education and other human sciences, for example nursing science. It is a widely used method example in Scandinavia, and Van Manen is well known for his hermeneutic phenomenological method. In many studies the hermeneutic phenomenological method is inarticulate or ambiguous. Researchers generally lack a common understanding of what this method actually is. One reason for that is that the expression “hermeneutic phenomenological method” is contradiction in terms. Hermeneutics and phenomenology have their own distinct history. Hermeneutics and phenomenology as philosophical disciplines have their own distinct aims and orientations. Hermeneutic is orientated to historical and relative meanings. Phenomenology in Husserlian sense is orientated to universal and absolute essences. Martin Heidegger connects hermeneutics and phenomenology in very sophisticated manner as hermeneutical phenomenology and he provides a very specific definition of his brand of phenomenology. For Heidegger, hermeneutical phenomenology is the research of the meaning of the Being as a fundamental ontology. However, this kind of phenomenology is of no use for educational qualitative research.

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Kvale, Steinar. "Ten standard Objections to Qualitative Research Interviews." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 25, no. 2 (1994): 147–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916294x00016.

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AbstractQualitative research has tended to evoke rather stereotyped objections from the mainstream of social science. Ten standardized responses to the stimulus "qualitative research interview" are discussed: it is not scientific, not objective, not trustworthy, nor reliable, not intersubjective, not a formalized method, not hypothesis testing, not quantitative, not generalizable, and not valid. With the objections to qualitative interviews highly predictable, they may be taken into account when designing, reporting, and defending an interview study. As a help for new qualitative researchers, some of the issues, concepts, and arguments involved are outlined, and the relevancy of the standard objections is discussed. Alternative conceptions of qualitative research, coming from phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions, are suggested. The qualitative interview based on conversation and interaction here appears as a privileged access to a linguistically constituted social world.

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Woodard, Fredrick. "Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Hypnosis: Review of the Literature." Psychological Reports 93, no. 3 (December 2003): 829–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2003.93.3.829.

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This article provides a summary of the available qualitative literature on hypnosis of importance to empirical study of hypnosis. The author advocates a link between phenomenological research and the qualitative research of perceptual theory to deepen an understanding of hypnosis previously missing in the research literature and in debates on the theoretical approaches to hypnosis. The author suggests linking Giorgi's and Wasicsko's research methodologies to advance qualitative research. Researchers could conduct more qualitative research on the experience of hypnosis to expand and explicate subjective experiencing and enhance exploration of individual differences that cannot be captured in artificially controlled environments.

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Mariani, Dini, Sri Mulatsih, Fitri Haryanti, and Anon Sutaryo. "Life Experience of Adolescents with Thalassemia: A Qualitative Research with Phenomenological Approach." Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 1045. http://dx.doi.org/10.37506/v11/i1/2020/ijphrd/193975.

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Biggerstaff, Deborah, and Andrew R. Thompson. "Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): A Qualitative Methodology of Choice in Healthcare Research." Qualitative Research in Psychology 5, no. 3 (September 20, 2008): 214–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780880802314304.

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McCoy, Lauren K. "Longitudinal qualitative research and interpretative phenomenological analysis: philosophical connections and practical considerations." Qualitative Research in Psychology 14, no. 4 (June 9, 2017): 442–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1340530.

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Sorrell, Jeanne Merkle, and Georgine M. Redmond. "Interviews in qualitative nursing research: differing approaches for ethnographic and phenomenological studies." Journal of Advanced Nursing 21, no. 6 (June 1995): 1117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21061117.x.

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Williams, Emma. "Resisting the Drive to Theorise: A Phenomenological Perspective on Social Science Research." Magis, Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación 11, no. 22 (October 16, 2018): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.m11-22.rdtp.

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This article explores predominant uses of theory in social science research in relation to the approach of phenomenological philosophy. While phenomenology is sometimes interpreted as one theoretical or methodological paradigm amongst others in the field of qualitative research, this article explores key thinkers within the philosophical tradition of phenomenology to argue that this tradition can raise challenges for predominant conceptions of research and theorizing in the social sciences and certain philosophical idea(l)s that can be connected to them. The distinctive nature of phenomenological description is outlined, and new possibilities for qualitative research are sketched.

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Woodard, Fredrick James. "A Phenomenological and Perceptual Research Methodology for Understanding Hypnotic Experiencing." Psychological Reports 95, no. 3 (December 2004): 887–904. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.95.3.887-904.

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Phenomenology and perceptual psychology opens up the essential meanings of hypnosis by presenting a qualitative method as an alternative to the current predominant quantitative method in the study of hypnosis. Scales that measure susceptibility from behavioral and cognitive aspects abound in the hypnosis literature, but understanding the structure of hypnotic experiencing is yet to come. A new qualitative approach to researching hypnotic experiencing by combining aspects of phenomenological research as in work of Giorgi, Moustakas, and Wertz, familiarity with Husserl's philosophy, and a perceptual psychological research method (cf. work by Combs, Richards, & Richards and by Wasicsko). The author utilized this combined methodology to formulate the theory of Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis. This methodology enables the therapist or professional and patient or client to share benefits from the effects of their hypnotic experiencing in its intersubjective sense. This method can be applied in numerous life situations such as teaching and therapy in addition to the experimental situation.

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Usher, Kim, and Colin Holmes. "Ethical Aspects of Phenomenological Research with Mentally Ill People." Nursing Ethics 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096973309700400106.

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Given the dramatic rise in the frequency of nursing research that involves eliciting personal information, one would expect that attempts to maintain the balance between the aspirations of researchers and the needs and rights of patients would lead to extensive discussion of the ethical issues arising. However, they have received little attention in the literature. This paper outlines and discusses some of the issues associated with qualitative research. The discussion converges on the specific case of phenomenological research, which involves the invasion of participants’ personal worlds, and draws attention to some of the ethical issues that arise when the participants are psychiatric patients.

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TOMBOLATO, Mário Augusto, and Manoel Antônio dos SANTOS. "Análise Fenomenológica Interpretativa (AFI): Fundamentos básicos e aplicações na pesquisa em psicologia." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 26, no. 3 (2020): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2020v26n3.5.

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In the context of qualitative research, the objective in this study is to address the basic underpinnings and the potential applications of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a theoretical-methodological framework. IPA is grounded in concepts and the articulation of three knowledge areas: phenomenology, hermeneutics and idiography. This text deals with the introduction and characteristics, potentialities, limitations of, and - more specifically- introduce and discusses theoretical and practical IPA applications in research. Although it is well established internationally, a limited number of studies in Brazil are grounded in IPA. Therefore, this paper is expected to contribute to the dissemination of the approach in the Brazilian context by filling the existing gap and, as a result, inspire and encourage the development of new studies.

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Choi, Kyeong-Seop. "The Phenomenological Picture of the ‘Region’ We Live in - A Phenomenological-Qualitative Research Challenging for the Quantitative-Econometric One -." Korean Journal of Philosophy 126 (November 30, 2015): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.18694/kjp.2015.11.126.185.

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Noon, Edward John. "Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: An Appropriate Methodology for Educational Research?" Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice 6, no. 1 (April 24, 2018): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v6i1.304.

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Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a contemporary qualitative methodology, first developed by psychologist Jonathan Smith (1996). Whilst its roots are in psychology, it is increasingly being drawn upon by scholars in the human, social and health sciences (Charlick, Pincombe, McKellar, & Fielder, 2016). Despite this, IPA has received limited attention across educationalist literature. Drawing upon my experiences of using IPA to explore the barriers to the use of humour in the teaching of Childhood Studies (Noon, 2017), this paper will discuss its theoretical orientation, sampling and methods of data collection and analysis, before examining the strengths and weaknesses to IPA’s employment in educational research.

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Halkett, G. K. B., S. D. Scutter, P. Arbon, and M. Borg. "Using a phenomenological perspective in radiation therapy research." Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice 4, no. 1 (June 2004): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1460396904000032.

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Research in radiation therapy is developing as radiation therapists recognise the need for improved evidence-based practice and patient care. However, many radiation therapists have a limited background in the area of research practices and the methodology that may be utilised to answer specific research questions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a research question and the steps involved in determining an appropriate methodology that can be used to answer that research question. To demonstrate application of the approaches and methodologies that are described, an example research question that focuses on the experience of treatment decision-making for early stage breast cancer is considered and referred to throughout the paper. Initially, quantitative and qualitative research paradigms are considered and described to demonstrate the approaches that can be used, the type of data that can be collected and the results that can be analysed and utilised to answer the research question. As a phenomenological approach was found to be appropriate to investigate the question, this approach is explored in greater detail.

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Silva, Ellen Fernanda Gomes da. "Pesquisa qualitativa em psicologia clínica: uma possibilidade metodológica em diálogo com a fenomenologia hermenêutica." Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa 6, no. 11 (August 1, 2018): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.33361/rpq.2018.v.6.n.11.176.

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Resumo: O presente artigo, de cunho teórico, apresenta uma proposta metodológica para as pesquisas qualitativas em Psicologia Clínica. Para tanto, discute a perspectiva fenomenológica hermenêutica e suas ressonâncias para a pesquisa qualitativa. Posteriormente, reflete sobre a importância da questão-bússola como norteadora da pesquisa e apresenta a entrevista narrativa e o diário de bordo como recursos metodológicos. Por fim, a análise compreensiva do fenômeno, a partir da compreensão gadameriana, será apontada enquanto possibilidade de compreensão/interpretação do fenômeno a ser pesquisado. Nessa direção, considera-se a relevância dos pressupostos fenomenológicos hermenêuticos – tais como a compreensão, a linguagem, a noção de verdade, fenômeno e método – na tarefa de contribuir para a realização de pesquisas em Psicologia Clínica, ao passo que são assumidos como indicativos-formais; os quais se configuram como sinalizadores de direções e auxiliam na compreensão dos fenômenos.Palavras-chave: Pesquisa Qualitativa; Psicologia Clínica; Fenomenologia Hermenêutica; Gadamer. Qualitative research in clinical psychology: a methodological possibility in dialogue with hermeneutic phenomenologyAbstract: This article presents a methodological proposal for qualitative research in Clinical Psychology. For that, we will discuss the hermeneutic phenomenological perspective and its resonances for qualitative research. Later, we will reflect on the importance of the compass question as guiding the research and we will present the narrative interview and the logbook as methodological resources. Finally, the comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon, based on the understanding of Gadamer, will be pointed out as a possibility of understanding / interpretation of the phenomenon to be researched. In this direction, the relevance of hermeneutic phenomenological presuppositions - such as comprehension, language, the notion of truth, phenomenon and method - in the task of contributing to research in Clinical Psychology is considered, while they are assumed as indicative -form; which are configured as direction flags and help in understanding the phenomena.Keywords: Qualitative research; Clinical psychology; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; Gadamer.

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Bartholomew, Theodore T., Eileen E. Joy, Ellice Kang, and Jill Brown. "A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants’ voices in phenomenological research." Methodological Innovations 14, no. 2 (May 2021): 205979912110400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20597991211040063.

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Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific variants of phenomenology; however, these do not provide clear guidance as to what is an adequate sample in phenomenology. The purpose of this systematic review was to help improve implementation of phenomenological methods by exploring sample issues as they relate to study quality. We implemented an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to test relationships between samples and studies’ quality then deepen our understanding of these findings with a focused content analysis. First, we reviewed and coded 200 manuscripts following the PRISMA method. Larger samples were associated with lower quality and studies aligned with a specific phenomenological method tended to be of higher quality. Second, we identified two cases from the studies reviewed and subjected them to deductive qualitative content analysis to identify features that demonstrate quality. Findings are discussed with respect to implications for phenomenological methods in social and health sciences.

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Lee, Weonhee. "Exploring Direction through Analyzing Trends in Phenomenological Qualitative Research in Special Education Field." Journal of special education : theory and practice 21, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 47–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.19049/jsped.2020.21.2.03.

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Abedini, Samireh, Elham Imani, and Abbas Fazli. "Ethical Challenges Experiences by Faculty Members : A Qualitative Research with a Phenomenological Approach." World Family Medicine Journal/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 16, no. 3 (March 2018): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5742/mewfm.2018.93320.

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Sousa, Daniel. "Validation in Qualitative Research: General Aspects and Specificities of the Descriptive Phenomenological Method." Qualitative Research in Psychology 11, no. 2 (March 6, 2014): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.853855.

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Osborne, John W. "Some similarities and differences among phenomenological and other methods of psychological qualitative research." Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne 35, no. 2 (April 1994): 167–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0708-5591.35.2.167.

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Stones, Christopher R. "Phenomenological Praxis: A Constructive Alternative in Research in Psychology." South African Journal of Psychology 16, no. 4 (December 1986): 117–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124638601600403.

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Serious consideration is given to the possibility that the traditional quantitative research orientation in psychology can no longer be considered the panacea that it was once believed to be. It is argued that any research approach, such as a quantitative one, which gives priority to the methodology as opposed to the phenomenon is based on inappropriate ontological reduction. Consequently, it is argued that psychology should aim more at being a descriptive science rather than an explanatory one. The traditional research modus operandi is compared with that offered by a qualitative approach and examples of such research are provided. The article concludes by outlining a programmed series of steps considered fundamental to any form of rigorous phenomenological research.

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