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  1. Qualitative Research Questions

    From the Dissertation Center, Chapter 1: Research Question Overview, there are several considerations when forming a qualitative research question. Qualitative research questions should . Below is an example of a qualitative phenomenological design. Note the use of the term "lived experience" in the central research question. This aligns ...

  2. A Phenomenological Study of Nurses' Experience in Caring for COVID-19

    2.1. Study Design. The philosophical framework and study design of this study were guided by phenomenology. The philosophical aim of phenomenology is to provide an understanding of the participant's lived experiences [].In order to reveal the true essence of the 'living experience', it is first necessary to minimize the preconceived ideas that researchers may have about the research ...

  3. (PDF) A practical guide to using Interpretative Phenomenological

    Example interview questions for a study on illness behaviors in an ethnic minority group. The researcher's goal was to examine how ... Methods: This study used a phenomenological research design ...

  4. PDF Essentials of Existential Phenomenological Research Sample Chapter

    The heart and soul of the "existential phenomenological" research method is to be found in our "approach" (Giorgi, 1970), which involves how we understand the nature of our subject matter, as well as how we establish our means of access to it. Without this approach—which embodies a dis-tinctive "theory of science" (Dilthey, 1924 ...

  5. PDF The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): A Guide to a ...

    As a qualitative research approach, phenomenology was first conceptualized and theorized by Husserl (1931) as a way ... The following are examples of some of the brilliant theorists and minds who have written about the usability of the theory of phenomenology. Perhaps one of the best known theorist and author is van Manen. van Manen in 1990 wrote

  6. Researching Lived Experience in Education: Misunderstood or Missed

    While examples of phenomenological research may be seen in greater abundance in fields such as psychology, nursing, and health science, education researchers too have adopted phenomenological approaches. This article concludes by providing a sample of education research studies adopting transcendental and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches ...

  7. Designing Phenomenological Studies

    Within this example, the importance of the research purpose and research question within a specific study context is underscored as central to appropriate methodological decision-making. Groenewald, T. (2004). A Phenomenological Research Design Illustrated. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 3(1), 42-55.

  8. PDF Exploring phenomenological interviews: questions, lessons learned and

    In this issue's second paper, keeping on with the work done in 2015 by Høfding and Martiny, the authors focus again on the "what, why and how" of the phenom-enological interview and confront the skeptical argument that is sometimes used to question the validity of phenomenological interviewing. The authors emphasize that this kind of ...

  9. Taking phenomenology beyond the first-person perspective ...

    To the first question, there may be various ways to justify the use of behavioral evidence in phenomenological research. However, because we aim to outline concrete methods for collecting and analyzing such evidence, we'll provide just one brief justification: Within phenomenology, human behavior isn't studied as the effect of physiological ...

  10. Doing Phenomenological Research and Writing

    14) The philosopher Edward Casey (2000, 2007) has written several insightful and eloquent phenomenological studies on topics such as places and landscapes, the glance, and imagining. Casey (2000) asserts that the phenomenologi-cal method as conceived by Husserl takes its beginning from carefully selected examples.

  11. An Introduction to Engaged Phenomenology

    Engaged research, as I discuss in more detail later in this introductory article, is a community-oriented approach to the generation of shared understanding for the mutual benefit of all stakeholders. This connection with engaged research matters in more ways than one. There has been a proliferation of "named" approaches to phenomenology in ...

  12. A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Adult

    addition, the researcher presents her own experience as it has influenced her research trajectory. Definitions of sexual assault, survivor, resilience, and spirituality and religious practices are presented. Relevant grounded theory and a theoretical framework are presented. Research questions and aims guide the structure and design of the study.

  13. "The Research Question in Hermeneutic Phenomenology and ...

    Formulating the research question is a key but complex task in qualitative studies. The question should be framed consistently with the approach chosen; in other words, question and approach are interdependent. This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the nature of the research question; to this end, we address its meaning by presenting two qualitative approaches: applied ...

  14. PDF Crafting Phenomenological Research: The Basics: Slides

    Phenomenological Research: The Basics Mark D. Vagle The University of Minnesota. Agenda 30K, 10K, "On the Ground" ... Questions. Title: Crafting Phenomenological Research: The Basics: Slides Created Date: 11/17/2022 2:10:25 PM ...

  15. Phenomenological psychology and qualitative research

    What follows is a brief case example of a phenomenological psychological data analysis. Again, unlike philosophy where the research is done in a solitary first person manner, in phenomenological psychology we take a second person position. We see ourselves as participants—not mere observers—as we try to grasp the fuller meaning of other people's concrete descriptions as expressed within ...

  16. A Phenomenological Study into How Students Experience and Understand

    A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY INTO HOW STUDENTS EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENCY by Kahler B. Schuemann A dissertation submitted to the Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Educational Leadership, Research and Technology Western Michigan University April 2014

  17. Hermeneutic Phenomenological Interviewing: Going Beyond Semi-Structured

    illustrative examples of how going beyond semi-structured formats helped this participant revisit experiences in ways that new meaning emerged and enhanced understanding of the phenomena. Keywords: Teachers, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Interviewing . Phenomenological research focuses on the meaning of lived experience, or "the world

  18. What is Phenomenological Research Design?

    Phenomenological research design example. Below is a phenomenological research design example to help you better understand this qualitative research method. ... Barrow asked questions to explore each parent's experiences during the first interview and used the photos as a tool to help the family reflect on their experiences with their child ...

  19. PDF The Interview: Data Collection in Descriptive Phenomenological Human

    Methodological issues are raised in relation to evalu-ative criteria as well as reective matters that concern the phenomenological researcher. The data collection issues covered are 1) the selection of participants, 2) the number of participants in a study, 3) the interviewer and the questions, and. 4) data collection procedures.

  20. Phenomenology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    Phenomenology. First published Sun Nov 16, 2003; substantive revision Mon Dec 16, 2013. Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. The central structure of an experience is its intentionality, its being directed toward something, as it is an experience of or about some object.

  21. Phenomenological Qualitative Methods Applied to the Analysis of Cross

    Introduction: The Qualitative Method in Educational Research. Many scholars in phenomenology hold the view that human beings extract meaning from the world through personal experience (Husserl, 1931; Hycner, 1985; Koopmans, 2015; Hourigan and Edgar, 2020; Gasparyan, 2021).Investigating the experience of individuals is a highly complex phenomenon (Jarvis, 1987): annotating and clarifying human ...

  22. A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of Employee Perceptions of the

    economy. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the impacts that layoffs and downsizing have on employees' trust, work performance, behavior, and health. Informed by Sarker's theory on management and employee trust, the research questions explored participants' work attitudes and performances after layoffs had taken place.

  23. Examples of Phenomenological Research Questions

    This document provides examples of phenomenological research questions and studies. Phenomenological research questions explore the lived experiences of individuals, such as the experience of motherhood for deployed female soldiers, the role of spirituality in cancer remission, or how teachers overcome fears after being assaulted. The examples of studies examine grittiness in those over 60 and ...

  24. "The Experience of Nursing Faculty in Uganda Integrating Technology in

    The study was founded on the connectivism learning theory, which emphasizes leveraging digital technology in education. However, to answer the question, the transcendental phenomenology research study design was adopted, which enabled in-depth exploration of Uganda's nursing faculty's lived experiences in integrating digital technology.