A phenomenological research design illustrated

Groenewald, Thomas

dc.contributor.author	Groenewald, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-02T10:48:45Z
dc.date.available	2009-09-02T10:48:45Z
dc.date.issued	2004-04
dc.identifier.citation	Groenewald, T. 2004, 'A phenomenological research design illustrated', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-25. [http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/3_1/html/groenewald.html]	en
dc.identifier.issn	1609-4069
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2573
dc.description	Article	en
dc.description.abstract	This article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of the specific study follows. Thereafter the location of the data, the data-gathering the data-storage methods are explained. Unstructured in-depth phenomenological interviews supplemented by memoing, essays by participants, a focus group discussion and field notes were used. The data explicitation, by means of a simplified version of Hycner’s (1999) process, is further explained. The article finally contains commentary about the validity and truthfulness measures, as well as a synopsis of the findings of the study. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/article/view/4484	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	International Journal of Qualitative Methods	en
dc.subject	Research paradigm	en
dc.subject	Location of data	en
dc.subject	Data-gathering	en
dc.subject	Data storage	en
dc.subject	Focus groups	en
dc.subject	Field notes	en
dc.subject	Validity	en
dc.subject	Truthfulness	en
dc.title	A phenomenological research design illustrated	en
dc.type	Article	en