Practicing Phenomenological Writing

Manen, Max van

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“…Written narratives and transcripts were reviewed line by line to isolate significant statements from the text that seemed particularly essential or revealing about midlife women's experience of living alone (Van Manen, 1984). Meanings were formulated as they emerged from the data.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Midlife Women's Narratives of Living Alone

Segraves

2004

Health Care for Women International

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Women who live alone in the United States maintain connectedness in ways that are not fully understood. The purposes of this study were to (1) describe midlife women's definitions of themselves and how these are related to living alone; (2) identify the role of connections in relation to self; and (3) describe how self-definition is related to well-being. Van Manen's interpretive phenomenology and Riessmann's method of narrative analysis were used to examine the role of connections and well-being. Living alone was a core component of self. Outside connections supported the women's well-being. Women's future concerns included disability and financial viability. Directions for further study include examining the concepts of mattering and belonging in relation to women's emotional health.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Midlife Women's Narratives of Living Alone

Segraves

2004

Health Care for Women International

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“…As with many aspects of the phenomenological method, including data collection and analysis, there are no strict guidelines for how to present the 'findings' or people's described experiences (Van Manen 1984). The final 'look' of a phenomenological thesis, report or paper depends on the nature of the phenomena and the way experiences of it are collected, collated, analysed and presented.…”

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“…Hermeneutic phenomenological 'data' (for want of a better word) can be presented in many different forms, for instance, poems, narratives or diaries (Van Manen 1984). Due to its association with terms such as 'statistics', 'facts' and 'numbers', the concept of collecting 'data' in phenomenological studies is perhaps deserving of a better term.…”

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“…When presenting studies grounded in phenomenology, a way should be found to display descriptive and interpretive research findings in a manner that best captures and represents the 'life-worlds' of the participants experiencing the phenomena (Van Manen 1984). Phenomenology should allow the reader to imagine and understand what a particular experience is like, and what its essential structures are.…”

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Presenting phenomenology: faithfully recreating the lived experiences of Surfer Girls

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Wilson

Jenkins

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Annals of Leisure Research

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Phenomenology offers an appropriate philosophical orientation to investigate people's lived experiences. It is an approach that is now widely acknowledged and applied in the social sciences. Despite its increasing adaptation in diverse contexts, the use of phenomenology in leisure studies remains limited and presents many conceptual, theoretical and applied challenges to researchers. A significant challenge is presenting research findings in ways that faithfully present people's experiences. This paper provides reflexive insights into Laura's (the lead author's) attempts as a current Ph.D. candidate to embrace Heideggerian phenomenology to investigate the experiences of being a surfer. The paper is derived from Laura's thesis process, where she took part in 37 unstructured conversations with women surfers ('Surfer Girls'), and incorporated her own experiences as a woman surfer into the study. In her thesis, Laura presents her findings in the form of 'postcards' to promote women surfer's individuality, and to make their words come to life. Text, visual and other aids are incorporated in ways that enrich the written word, and that set a 'surfing scene' and create a surfing lifeworld for the reader. This paper examines and explains the importance of integrating phenomenological method and analysis to give faithful voice to people's lived experiences, and suggests tools for presenting phenomenological findings. Finally, this paper justifies and promotes the use of phenomenology as an under-utilized means of deepening our understandings of people's leisure experiences.

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“…Scholars such as Barritt et al (1983) andvan Manen (1984) view the researcher's task of analysis and interpretation as a dialectic investigation that eventually enables the researcher to describe as evocatively as possible the essential structures (themes) of the human experience of a phenomenon. These descriptions are seldom if ever the ultimate reduction of an experience to its essence, but a careful analysis of any human experience is posited as providing insight into similar phenomena.…”

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The Teacher Educator's Experience: Cultural Generativity and Duality of Commitment

Weber¹

1990

Curriculum Inquiry

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The research literature of teacher education is remarkably silent on the topic of teacher educators themselves. In this article, I report and explore some of the perceptions and the experience of six university professors of education whom I have interviewed extensively. Analysis is presented in the form of descriptive stories, comments, and reflections that capture a few significant moments of a teacher educator's university teaching experience. One of the major themes presented is the generative aspect of teacher education which I discuss with reference to Kotie's distinction between technical and cultural generativity. An examination of the teacher educator's experience also reveals the fluctuating tensions of a dual commitment: a commitment to the learning of one's students, and a commitment to furthering professional understanding (i.e. the teacher educator's own learning and professional culture). The implications of the duality of this commitment are investigated, especially with respect to perceived dilemmas such as research versus service.

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Practicing Phenomenological Writing

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Midlife Women's Narratives of Living Alone

Presenting phenomenology: faithfully recreating the lived experiences of Surfer Girls

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