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Phenomenological

Research
“The Lived Experience”

Shelly, Reena, Shannon


Overview

1) Presentation 2) Case Study 3) Activity & Wrap Up


- Phenomenology - A Qualitative - Scenario Activity
- Phenomenological Phenomenological - Conclusion
Research Exploration of Teachers'
- Our examples Experience With Nutrition
Education
- Elisha Hall, Weiwen Chai &
Julie A. Albrecht (2016)
Edumund Husserl - principal
founder of phenomenology
What is phenomenology?

GOOGLE’S DEFINITION: OUR DEFINITION:

● An approach that concentrates ● How people experience and

on the study of consciousness perceive the world around

and the objects of direct themselves

experience
Two Types of Phenomenology

Hermeneutic Transcendental
- Researcher interprets - Focuses on people’s
text (blogs, stories, meaning of a lived
tweets, etc.) experience
Lived Experiences
So what exactly is phenomenological research?
Phenomenological
Research
A QUALITATIVE APPROACH TO RESEARCH
Shannon’s Words:
“Time being spent as opposed to stuff being
purchased.”
Shelly’s Words:
“Telling my experiences through a lens without
biases”
Reena’s Words:
“Phenomenology is the lived experiences of
individuals regarding a certain phenomenon”
Phenomenological Research

Gubrium & Holstein, 2000


◉ Phenomenological research relies on accurate description of
the phenomenon, free from bias, and true to the facts, as told
from the people involved.
Phenomenological Research

Alfred Shultz

◉ "the ways in which ordinary members of society attend to their


everyday lives"
"...we are all born phenomenologists; the poets and painters among us, however, understand
very well their task of sharing, by means of word and image, their insights with others - an
artfulness that is also laboriously practised by the professional phenomenologist."

-- Van den Berg


Key Points

● Participants as "co-researchers",
● Be as non-directive as possible in your instructions
● In order to abstract out the themes
○ Themes are essential aspects "without which the
experience would not have been the same"
Two Types of Themes

Collective Themes: Individual Themes:


● Occur across a group ● Are unique to one or a
of participants have a few individual
similar experience participants
Key Points

● BRACKETING:
○ when the inquiry is performed from the
perspective of the researcher
Challenges

- Hard to recruit → phenomenon of interest may differ

- Long time to collect data

- Biases when bracketing

- Small groups experience cannot be taken into consideration as to

what everyone else who experience that Phenomenon


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