Teaching Phenomenological Research and Writing.
Catherine Adams, Michael Anders Van Manen
Qualitative Health Research May 1, 2017 DOI: 10.1177/1049732317698960 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Qualitative Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Humans Nursing research Nursing methodology research Qualitative research Research design Hermeneutics North america Interpretation Human science Wonder Reflective analysis Re-writing Agogy Anecdote Eidetic themes Epoché-reduction Evaluative criteria Inceptual meaning Insight cultivator Lived experience description Phenomenological insights Phenomenology of practice |
| Key points | Argues that hermeneutic phenomenology demands a sensitivity and attitudinal disposition that must be internalized and cannot be reduced to a procedural or step-by-step program. The authors describe a seminar combining primary phenomenological literature, writing exercises, lectures, workshops, readings, and discussion, and report that participants became highly motivated and committed to their personal phenomenological projects. |
Abstract
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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