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The document discusses different types of phenomenology research including transcendental, existential, and sociological phenomenology. It covers phenomenological interview techniques and data analysis methods such as Moustakas' approach and Colaizzi's 7 step process.

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Reviewer in Practical Research

The document discusses different types of phenomenology research including transcendental, existential, and sociological phenomenology. It covers phenomenological interview techniques and data analysis methods such as Moustakas' approach and Colaizzi's 7 step process.

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Reviewer in Practical Research (Lesson 1)

Transcendental Phenomenology
-Describes the common meaning of several aspects of human experience,
such as perception, intentionality, temporality, and intersubjectivity.
Goal of transcendental Phenomenology
-To gain insights about something they thought previously knew.
Transcendental Phenomenology
-Deals with the attempt to understand experience lived experiences of
individuals in relation to a certain phenomenon.
-Aims to provide description of an experience, as it is experience freshly and
purely.
Phenomenology
-Is a philosophical method that seeks to describe the structure of our
experience as they present themselves to us, it is concerned with the ways
in which we perceive and make sense of the world around us.
Phenomenological Research
-It is the study that describe the common meaning for several individuals of
their lived experiences of a concept or a phenomenon.
Types of Phenomenology
• Ethical Phenomenology
• Existential Phenomenology
• Critical Phenomenology
• Sociological Phenomenology
• Interceptive Phenomenology
• Descriptive Phenomenology
Existential Phenomenology
-Understanding the reason they wanted to live.

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Sociological Phenomenology
-Understanding the reason under the social issues.

Types of Interviews in Transcendental Phenomenology


Three Structure In-depth Interview of Seidman (2006)
• First Phase – Focus on past experience with the phenomenon of
interest
• Second Phase – Focus on the details of the experience
• Third Phase – Description of the future.
Phenomenological Interview of Moustakas (1994)
• Social conversation
• Particular awareness and impact of the experience
• Description of the full experience

Moustakas (1994)
Description
-Used in presenting the lived experience of Participant.
Epoche (Bracketing)
-where the researcher suspends his/her personal judgement.
Phenomenological Ineterview
-Used as an effective method in data
Composite description or Universal essence
-the intuitive integration of that and structural description into a unified
statement of the essence of the research.
Heterogeneous Group
-the group of participants in the study consisting of 5 to 25 persons
(Polkinghorne 1989).

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Central Questions
What is it like?
The goal is to understand
what it is like to be human?

Sample and Sampling Strategies


➢ 5 to 25 participants who are willing to participate.
➢ Purposive or Purposeful sampling.
➢ Snowball sampling - the recommendation of someone you interview.

Data Source

Phenomenological
Observation
Interview

Documents : Art Based Data: Drawings,


Participants, Diaries, etc. aesthetic portrayal.

Literature: Poems,
Stories.

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Moustaka’s
➢ Horizontalization (Listing all relevant statement)
➢ Clusters of Meanings (Identifying common categories)
➢ Textural Description (“what” the participants experience)
➢ Structural Description (“how” the participants experience)

Strength
• (Bracketing)
• Use of Description rather than explanation
• Humans has the same experience

Weaknesses
• Data analysis is to structure
• Its philosophical background requires a deeper understanding of its
assumptions.
• Complete suspension of the researchers preconceived idea and
judgement or using epoche/bracketing.

Data Analysis (Qualitative


Data analysis
-it’s the most important part of your research. It summarizes collected data.
It involves examining and interpreting data to discover meaningful
information, patterns, and trends.

Colaizzi’s Data Analysis


➢ Paul Francis Colaizzi (1978)
➢ Has distinctive seven step process provides rigorous analysis

Steps in Colaizzi’s Data Analysis


1. Familiarization

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➢ The researcher familiarize him or herself with the data, by reading
through all the participant accounts several times.
➢ Each transcripts should be read and re-read in order to obtain a
general sense about the whole content.
2. Identifying Significant Statements
➢ The researcher identifies all the statement in the accounts that are of
direct relevance to the phenomenon under investigation.
➢ These statements should be extracted. These statement must be
re-read.
3. Formulating Meaning
➢ Identifies Meaning relevant to the phenomenon that arise.

4. Clustering Themes
➢ The Researcher clusters the identified meaning into the themes that
are common across all accounts.
➢ Formulated meanings should be sorted into categories.
5. Developing an Exhaustive Description
➢ The researcher writes a full and inclusive description.
6. Producing the fundamental structure
➢ Exhausting description, the fundamental that refers to the
phenomenon should be describe.
7. Seeking verification of the fundamental structure
➢ N/A

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Additional Notes:
Table 1
Transcript meaning Sub-Theme Theme
etc. Ha ? Hatdog
etc. Ha ? Hatdog

Meaning transcendental
-you are going to translate it. -Understanding it based on what you just
Theme knows. We will learn more on what
-it is the topic we study.
-usually one or two words
-the explanation
Table 2
-combine all the themes

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