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	Fenomenologia nella Ricerca Educativa	Etnografia
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990 (van Manen's systematic educational application); philosophical roots ~1900–1913	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Ideatore	Max van Manen (education application); Edmund Husserl (philosophical foundation)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Tipo	Qualitative research approach	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Fonte seminale	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	educational phenomenology, phenomenology of education, lived-experience research in education, pedagogical phenomenology	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Phenomenology in education research is a qualitative approach that investigates how students, teachers, and educational actors experience pedagogical phenomena — learning, teaching, assessment, transition, or identity — from the inside. Drawing on van Manen's human science framework and Husserlian and Heideggerian traditions, it seeks to reveal the essential lived structures of educational experience rather than measure outcomes or test hypotheses.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.