by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Cultural Sources
Human phenomena always acquire their significance in cultural contexts; thus culture is a source of meaning for phenomenological inquiry. As a result of the increased globalization of our cultural awareness, we now realize that people’s experiences of everyday life...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Drawing
Drawing: The words draw us in. In some sense the phenomenologist is like an artist and an author. Just as a painter draws the world so the phenomenologist tries to use words to evoke some aspect of human existence in a linguistic image. Perhaps it is for this reason...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Eidetic Reduction
The eidetic reduction: eidos Method: Bracket all incidental meaning and ask: what are some of the possible invariate aspects of this experience? The research process involves reflective inquiry into “concealed” meaning while reconciling universality and particularity...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Embodied Knowledge
Embodied Knowledge: We discover what we know in our embodied being. There has been increased attention given to the phenomenon of embodiment in human action. From a phenomenological point of view it can even be argued that the whole body itself is pathic. Thus “the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
