Hermeneutic phenomenology in education research
Hermeneutic phenomenology in education research is a qualitative approach — developed principally by Max van Manen — that investigates the lived, meaning-laden dimensions of educational experience. Drawing on Heidegger's interpretive philosophy and Gadamer's hermeneutics, it asks what it is like, from the inside, to be a teacher, a learner, or a student navigating a formative moment, and renders that understanding through carefully crafted, evocative writing rather than through codes or statistics.
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- van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. · ISBN 978-0791404645
- van Manen, M. (2016). Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing. Routledge. · ISBN 978-1629581040
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