A Phenomenological Research Design Illustrated

Providing a complete portal to the world of case study research, the Fourth Edition of Robert K. Yin's bestselling text Case Study Research offers comprehensive coverage of the design and use of the case study method as a valid research tool. This…

This article has three aims: to establish the role of phenomenology in recent narratives concerning what "Continental" philosophy is; to explore the question of whether there is sufficient commonality within the "phenomenological movement" to speak…

Wendy Walker examines some important ethical issues that researchers need to consider before and during phenomenological research. She argues that failure to address such issues means putting at risk the rights of research participants.

The purpose of the phenomenological approach is to illuminate the specific, to identify phenomena through how they are perceived by the actors in a situation. In the human sphere this normally translates into gathering deep information and…

In this volume, Clark Moustakas clearly discusses the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology, based on the work of Husserl and others, and takes the reader step-by-step through the process of conducting a phenomenological study. His concise…

This paper explores the use ofpoetic forms ofexpressive writing in phenomenological research. The flrst part recapitulates the expressive agenda and its links with phenomenology. The second part ofthe paper looks at the genesis ofa poetic form I…

Reenactment is proposed as an alternative interviewing strategy for phenomenological research. Three techniques borrowed from the psychodramatic method, warming up, scene-setting and soliloquy, are described as they were used in interviews with…

The main arguments of my book, Perception and Reason, are outlined. Part I argues that perceptual experiences provide reasons for empirical beliefs. For such beliefs depend for their contents upon their relations with experiences, and only…

In this paper I propose to examine the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenological research which is plagued with the same methodological problems that confronted psychoanalysis at the turn of the century. Some general criticisms levelled at both…

Phenomenologists would agree that the body discloses the world just as the world discloses itself through the body. Yet, in much phenomenological research, the focus is on words from transcripts and protocols-the body is strangely absent. In this…