Researching Lived Experience: human science for an action sensitive pedagogy

Available in: English, Korean, Chinese

Researching Lived Experience is an introductory text on phenomenological writing. Through detailed methodological explications and practical examples of hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry, it shows how to orient oneself to human (pedagogical) experience and how to construct a questioning inquiry which evokes a fundamental sense of wonder, and it provides a broad and systematic set of approaches for gaining experiential material. Special attention is paid to the methodological function of anecdotal narrative in human science research, and approaches are offered for structuring the phenomenological text in relation to the particular kinds of questions being studied. Finally, it is argued that the choice of research method not only is itself a pedagogical commitment, but also reveals how one stands pedagogically in life.

This text is based on a human science project exploring methodological approaches for researchers interested in hermeneutic phenomenology. For a content outline of this text see the page Research as Writing.

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