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Field-based phenomenology

Field-based phenomenology is a qualitative approach that investigates the lived experience of a phenomenon by collecting data in the natural environments where that experience actually unfolds — rather than exclusively in interview rooms. Drawing on the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger, and systematised by Max van Manen, it combines sustained fieldwork observation with open-ended, in-situ conversation to capture the experiential texture of phenomena as participants encounter them in everyday life.

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Field-Based Phenomenological Research
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. · ISBN 978-0791404508
  • Finlay, L. (2011). Phenomenology for Therapists: Researching the Lived World. Wiley-Blackwell. · ISBN 978-0470683385
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