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Collaborative Reflection

Collaborative Reflection Reflections on the thematic and narrative dimensions of a phenomenological text may be conducted collaboratively, by a research group or participants of a seminar. Collaborative reflective discussions are helpful in generating deeper insights...

Comparative Reflection

Comparative Reflection Phenomenological literature may contain material which has already addressed in a descriptive or an interpretive manner the very topic or question which preoccupies us. The work of other phenomenologists can be a source with which we can enter...

Conceptual Reflection

Conceptual Reflection Concept analysis is a philosophical technique for specifying differences of meaning. Concept analysis is the process of breaking up a complex conceptual or linguistic entity into its most basic semantic constituents. One assumption of conceptual...

Corporeal Reflection

Corporeal Reflection Lived body (corporeality) refers to the phenomenological fact that we are always bodily in the world. When we meet another person in his or her landscape or world we meet that person first of all through his or her body. In our physical or bodily...

Describing Experiences

Describing Experiences Personal experience is often a good starting point for phenomenological inquiry. To be aware of the structure of one’s own experience of a phenomenon may provide the researcher with clues for orienting to the phenomenon and thus to all the other...

Empirical Methods

The main purpose of the empirical (and exegetical) methods is to explore examples and varieties of lived experiences, especially in the form of anecdotes, narratives, stories and other lived experience accounts. The lifeworld, the world of lived experience, is both...