Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research Research Articles

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry at a Canadian University

This hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry explores the lived experiences of Chinese international students at a Canadian university in COVID times with gender comparison. Ten participants between 20 and 30 years of age are interviewed via Zoom meetings and WeChat videos to reveal specific insights they have gained from their experiences. Based on resilience theory as a theoretical framework, the findings display the students’ protective factors, including internal assets and external resources, i.e., perceived competence, coping skills, self-efficacy, family connectedness, parental support, peer support, school connectedness, and community support, and the risk factors the students face during these challenging times, i.e., academic barriers, mental issues, health threats, and racial prejudges. The interactions of protective factors and risk factors are examined, in reducing or avoiding the negative effects of adversity exposure. Special resilience-based interventions are discussed.

A systems psychodynamic description of clinical psychologists’ role transition towards becoming organisational development consultants

Orientation: Clinical psychologists’ transition from practising in a clinical context to a large organisation implies an intensely experienced professional identity shift.Research purpose: To provide a systems psychodynamic description of the lived experiences of a group of clinical psychologists’ role transition towards becoming organisational development (OD) consultants.Motivation for the study: Although the role of clinical psychologists in organisations is theoretically explicated, limited research exists on their role transition experiences. Their lack of theoretical knowledge about and experience in organisational psychology make them vulnerable for exclusion and isolation.Research approach/design and method: A hermeneutic phenomenological research design using a collective case study, consisting of eight clinical psychologists, was used. The data gathering methods included a Listening Post and socio-analytic interviews. Systems psychodynamic data analysis was performed.Main findings: The manifesting themes related to experiences of diverse and intense anxiety, defensive structures, role, task, boundary and authorisation conflicts as well as solitary pilgrimages. Participants experienced an attack on their personal and professional identities, a sense of being overwhelmed, excluded and isolated from their colleagues and peers.Practical/managerial implications: The findings will facilitate clinical psychologists’ transition into OD roles and organisations’ awareness of their identity challenges.Contribution/value-add: Although employing clinical psychologists in OD roles is practised in many large organisations, the findings suggest that their transition into this role is underestimated in terms of emotional intensity.

Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language to Young Learners: Epistemological Beliefs of Pre-service Teachers

Teaching Turkish as a foreign language gained momentum in the last decades of the 20th century. However, teaching Turkish as a foreign language to young learners is still in its infancy as a field of study. Therefore, investigating practitioners’ epistemological beliefs on the issue will contribute to fill the gap in the literature. Regarding this fact, the present study intended to scrutinize epistemological beliefs of pre-service Turkish language teachers on teaching Turkish as a foreign language to young learners. Adopting a hermeneutic phenomenological research design, which is a qualitative study in nature, the present study gathered data from 66 pre-service Turkish language teachers enrolled in a state university in Turkey through written interview forms. The content analysis of the gathered qualitative data revealed that although all the participants took a course on teaching Turkish as a foreign language, almost none of them felt satisfaction in terms of their accomplishments in teaching Turkish as a foreign language to young learners. The findings also revealed that the participants had varying reasons for their dissatisfaction, including theory and adult-oriented course contents and lack of practice in the field. As for suggestions for additional policies on teaching Turkish as a foreign language to young learners, the participants recommended launching field-specific courses for pre-service teachers.

Percepciones y significados que otorga el profesorado universitario a la competencia docente en la Educación Superior: investigación fenomenológica-hermenéutica en San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Parte-se da pergunta: Qual e a nocao de competencias docentes e sob quais experiencias ou fontes essas competencias estao sendo construidas? O objetivo busca compreender o conceito de competencias docentes a partir das percepcoes e significados atribuidos pelo corpo docente em sua atuacao profissional. A pesquisa esta inserida no paradigma interpretativo. Trabalhamos com uma perspectiva teorica fenomenologica, a partir de uma abordagem metodologica do tipo hermeneutico. As informacoes sao coletadas por meio de entrevistas em profundidade, grupos de foco e observacao participante. Um dos resultados das informacoes coletadas nos leva a compreender o significado que os professores atribuem as habilidades docentes e esta relacionado a capacidade de transmitir informacoes, o que faz parte de um paradigma positivista. Diante disso, fica evidente que as funcoes atribuidas a professores e alunos nao estao de acordo com os requisitos atuais.

Doing a Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research Underpinned by Gadamer’s Philosophy: A Framework to Facilitate Data Analysis

Phenomenology is an umbrella term that refers to both a philosophical movement and a variety of research approaches. Hermeneutic phenomenology is a methodology, which is not rigidly set or prescribed. Hence, students and researchers using a hermeneutic phenomenology approach underpinned by Gadamer’s philosophy may struggle to apply his concepts while analysing data. This article describes a new framework that provides guidance on how to analyse data in a research study while remaining faithful to the major tenets of Gadamer’s work (pre-understandings, hermeneutic circle and fusion of horizons) and closely adhering to the central tenets. The framework provides a step-by-step strategy to ensure rigour while maintaining trustworthiness. This may serve as a useful guide for neophyte students and researchers using or considering Gadamer’s version of hermeneutic phenomenology in their studies.

O ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS: ESPECIFICIDADES PEDAGÓGICAS ENTRE O DIZER E O FAZER

Considerando as especificidades e as implicações das narrativas de três professoras, bem como as particularidades da ação pedagógica destas à luz do contexto escolar, no intuito de averiguar indícios da área das Ciências da Natureza em meio à prática pedagógica, buscou-se analisar, refletir e discutir sobre as possibilidades desencadeadas por estas para o acesso à cultura científica aos alunos desde o início do processo de escolarização. Os dados foram coletados por meio da observação e posterior transcrição em um diário de bordo, além da aplicação de um questionário analisado no viés qualitativo da pesquisa fenomenológico-hermenêutica. Nesse sentido, pontua-se que apesar de haver um consenso em relação a importância do ensino de Ciências da Natureza no início do processo de escolarização, evidencia-se limitados indícios de Ciências tanto na narrativa das professoras quanto durante o período de observação das aulas. É necessário que esta discussão permeie os processos de formação de professores, e que a mesma seja contemplada de forma articulada à BNCC.

Broken Personality: Lived Experiences of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders on Self-Stigma

Introduction: Psychiatric disorders are among the most stigmatizing disorders. Self-stigma will have desperate consequences for people such as patients who consider themselves worthless since they belong to a group that most people have negative feelings about. The present study was designed and conducted to better understand the experiences of patients with psychiatric disorders on self-stigma. Methods: This study, performed on 12 psychiatric patients in 2017, was a hermeneutic phenomenological research. The patients were selected based on purposive sampling method and unstructured interviews were used for data collection. According to the method developed by Diekelmann, a hermeneutic approach was used to analyze the data. Moreover, to determine the validity of the study, the criteria provided by Guba and Lincoln were utilized. Results: Broken Personality was identified as the main theme of the phenomenon and included seven subthemes: Injured feelings, Like wax in the hands of others, Scandalous symptoms of disease, Coming from another land, Stranger to oneself, Degradation of the position, and Shame of diagnosis. Conclusion: The results of this study emphasized the necessity to develop comprehensive and appropriate interventions to combat and prevent self-stigma in patients with psychiatric disorders.

Analysis methods in hermeneutic phenomenological research: interpretive profiles

Abstract Objective To describe the development of interpretive profiles for a hermeneutic phenomenological research study. Methods literature review was conducted to identify research that has used interpretive profiles. An initial interpretive profile was constructed. Results The final outcome was an interpretive profile that contained a case summary and addressed the aims of the researcher's study. The interpretive profile contained background material, coded excerpts, and interpretive comments. Conclusions Interpretive profiles can assist emerging scholars in describing self-world relations and experiential variations within and across participants. Interpretive profiles can facilitate the writing of dissertations and manuscripts since the data is systematically archived and easily retrievable.

Coagulation/Fibrinolysis and Thrombosis in Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Review Based on Up-To-Date Knowledge

The hallmark of this article was to explore the lived experiences of young women during the COVID-19 lockdowns in high-density suburbs in Zimbabwe. Qualitative research design and the hermeneutic phenomenological research approach were utilized.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research Approach: A Review of the Continuing Professional Development in the Clinical Speciality of Cardiology

Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research Approach: A Review of the Continuing Professional Development in the Clinical Speciality of Cardiology

Covid-19: Double Tragedy for Women in High-Density Suburbs of Zimbabwe

The hallmark of this article was to explore the lived experiences of young women during the COVID-19 lockdowns in high-density suburbs in Zimbabwe. Qualitative research design and the hermeneutic phenomenological research approach were utilized.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Essence in Educational Research

This article shows how and why hermeneutic phenomenological research can promote knowledge and understanding in research practices in education. The main focus of the article is aimed to provide rich textual descriptions of the experiencing of selected phenomena in the life world of individuals that are able to connect with the experience of all. It gives a brief overview of hermeneutic phenomenology and discuss its use in research work in education. The paper also presents on the diverse field of application, recent developments and the essence of hermeneutic phenomenological in education research. The article further examines the philosophical standpoint and establishes its linkages with various other methodologies. Finally, paper concludes with Clark Moustakas phenomenological data analysis for the analysis of the gathered data consisting three main components: phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, and synthesis to come to the conclusion. This article demonstrates and explores the value of hermeneutics as a credible, rigorous, and creative way to address the different aspects of professional practices and how hermeneutic phenomenology is useful in studying the personal and social facets of making psychological knowledge and searching for philosophical truth as a research methods in educational research.

Through My Eyes: African American Women Leaders' View on the Multi- Source Feedback Assessment

Intersectionality is an emerging topic in leadership development research. Intersectionality theory is an expansion of feminism that looks at the effects of overlapping identities, such as gender and race. This current study sought to understand the role of intersectionality on a popular form of leader development, multi- source feedback interventions. Multi-source feedback interventions provide an individual with self-referent information that promotes motivation and energy towards self-growth (Atwater, Waldman, & Brett, 2002). One's social identity often impacts the content of feedback, the process of how feedback is delivered, as well as how feedback is accepted and processed (Toegel & Conger, 2003). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological research design, I interviewed twenty African American women in leadership roles on their experience with the multi-source feedback assessment. Common themes emerged such as fear of confirming certain stereotypes, a desire for personality-based feedback, and the use of the multi-source feedback for leadership development.

Hermeneutic phenomenological human science research method in clinical practice settings: An integrative literature review

Researchers conduct phenomenological studies to better understand the experiences of phenomena. Researchers conducting phenomenological studies use different research methods grounded in philosophical underpinnings. Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological human science method is used in understanding phenomena in diverse disciplines. The purpose of the integrative review was to explore and synthesize research to address two questions about the human science method in clinical practice settings.Wittemore and Knafi (2005)'s method for integrative review was used to explore current literature and summarize the use of human science method. A database search of keywords in peer-reviewed articles published from 2009 to 2019 was reviewed. Eleven key research studies were selected for the integrative literature review. The key studies met the inclusion criteria of phenomenology, nurses, human science method, clinical practice, and van Manen. Researchers used van Manen's human science method as guidelines for collecting and analyzing data about the lived experience of diverse phenomena in clinical practice settings. An understanding of the human science method will guide researchers who conduct research studies using van Manen's approach to phenomenology.

Heideggerian phenomenological hermeneutics: Working with the data.

It is one thing to read about the methodology and methods of Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological research, the ontic description. It is quite another thing to be faced with an interview transcript. This article draws on a study that asked doctoral students about their experience of doing such research. How did they become "phenomenological/hermeneutic" in their thinking and writing? What helped them to find their way? We offer this article as a means of letting others learn from our own experiences. We support our insights with the writings of Heidegger and Gadamer to show the methodological congruence that is essential to Heideggerian phenomenological hermeneutic research.

PESQUISA-FORMAÇÃO FENOMENOLÓGICA HERMENÊUTICA “HEIDEGGERIANA”:

O objetivo deste artigo teórico-reflexivo é apresentar e discutir alguns aspectos da Pesquisa-Formação Fenomenológica Hermenêutica “Heideggeriana”, de cunho metodológico qualitativo-implicado, que buscou enfatizar sua pertinência (auto)cartográfica, num processo formativo sobre o autocuidado. Para tanto, assume uma perspectiva multirreferencial (MACEDO, 2000), tendo no pensamento “heideggeriano” sobre o autocuidado seu ponto fulcral. Além disso, o artigo adota uma linguagem metafórica relacionada a navegação. Reúne contribuições advindas de Josso (2007), Longarezzi e Silva (2008), Barbier (2004), Boff (2014), Freire (2015), Bondía (2017), Gadamer (2002), Rogers (2002), Amatuzzi (2007), Souza e Francisco (2017) e Passos, Kastrup e Escóssia (2015). Os instrumentos de navegação, que marcam e registram percursos, condições e estados, foram denominados “(auto)Cartografia na formação: mapas de si”. Estes foram constituídos por: diários reflexivos, que contribuíram para os registros da (auto)reflexão; e as escritas de si mesmo e das práticas, que serviram como uma (ins)crita criativa, envolvendo a prática enquanto ser-no-mundo. A partir dessa navegação formativa, compreende-se que os espaços formativos são momentos em que os tripulantes-professores têm a possibilidade de experimentar a (auto)cartografia, no movimento de revelar-se e cobrir-se, até se desvelar de si mesmo, responsabilizando-se pelo cultivo do seu autocuidado. A (auto)cartografia por tripulantes-professores indica que a formação é deveras lugar de autocuidado, afetando o encontro de si e do outro, provocando preocupação, inquietude e senso de entrosamento para com suas ações e as da coletividade.

The lived experience of nursing faculty developing as scholarly writers.

Nursing faculty are expected to disseminate scholarly work through publications, yet little is known about how faculty develop as scholarly writers. This manuscript discusses a hermeneutic phenomenological research study that uncovered the experience of nursing faculty developing as scholarly writers. Audiotaped personal interviews were conducted with 12 nursing faculty to understand the lived experience of nursing faculty developing as scholarly writers. A 5-step data analysis process consistent with phenomenology was used to identify common themes. Findings revealed five themes: pulling everything together, steering me in the direction, using feedback to grow, squeezing it in, and staying on task. This study offers educators insight into the experience of faculty developing as scholarly writers and leads to recommendations for approaches that may be useful in writing development.

Psychological Resilience of Volunteers in a South African Health Care Context: A Salutogenic Approach and Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry.

Volunteering in non-Western countries, such as South Africa, is subject to poor infrastructure, lack of resources, poverty-stricken conditions and often conducted by volunteers from lower socio-economic spheres of society. Sustaining the well-being of volunteers in this context is essential in ensuring their continued capacity to volunteer. To do so, it is important to understand the psychological resilience of these volunteers and the resistance resources they employ to positively adapt to their challenging work-life circumstances. The aim of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore volunteers’ psychological resilience from a salutogenic perspective. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight volunteers servicing government-run hospitals. Data were analysed through phenomenological hermeneutical analysis. Findings show a characteristic work-life orientation to be at the root of volunteers’ resilience. Their work-life orientation is based on a distinct inner drive, an other-directedness and a “calling” work orientation. It is proposed that this work-life orientation enables volunteers in this study context, to cope with and positively adapt to challenging work-life circumstances and continue volunteering. The elements of their work-life orientation are presented as intrapersonal strength resources fundamental to their psychological resilience. It is suggested that organisations invest in developmental interventions that endorse and promote these intrapersonal strengths.

Lived experience of medical veterans transitioning from military service to civilian nursing education

Many veterans take advantage of the educational benefits afforded them after service. As veterans, students in higher education are a special population with subsequent needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of medic student veterans attending a full-time Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. This study used the hermeneutic phenomenology research approach to explore the lived experiences of student veterans with military medic experience enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. While our study revealed diverse student experiences among these veterans, common themes included staying true to military training, normal life, and fitting in as a university student. Findings in this study substantiate medic student veterans attending nursing school represent a unique cohort which can benefit from customized services from the university.

THE SMELL OF LAW DECISIONS: OLFACTION IN BRAZILIAN SUPERIOR JUSTICE COURT

This paper aims to study the sense of smell and its importance to society, focusing on legal interpretations as a case to demonstrate the irritations between different social systems (science and law, mainly). Its general hypothesis is that some modern conceptions, even though dressed in all scientific and methodic appearance through centuries, are preconceptions biased by social interests; and these preconceptions based several paradigms of knowledge through times, being that Law reasoning in jurisprudence about smell has absorbed this socially constructed conceptions that are being denied by the most actual science. Its specific objectives are: i) to show what is the olfaction in human brain and psyche, according to the most current scientific discoveries; ii) to demonstrate that olfaction not only has a historical and cultural meaning, but also, that Modernity distorted its meaning in a non scientific way; iii) to study the jurisprudence of a specific important Court (Brazilian Superior Justice Court, or Superior Tribunal de Justiça , STJ, originally), in order to demonstrate that this modern preconceptions still take part on the decisional process nowadays. The research has used mainly three research methods: i) phenomenological-hermeneutical research; ii) historical-evolutive and anthropological research; iii) inductive method; its approach is transdisciplinar, quantitative and qualitative. Its technique of research is bibliographical and documental.