Hermeneutic Phenomenology

As a branch or method of phenomenology, hermeneutic phenomenology is concerned with the life world or human experience as it is lived. The focus is toward illuminating details and seemingly trivial aspects within experience that may be taken for granted in our lives, with a goal of creating meaning and achieving a sense of understanding.  While Husserl focused on understanding beings or phenomena, Heidegger focused on ‘Dasein’, that is translated as ‘the mode of being human’ or ‘the situated meaning of a human in the world’. Husserl was interested in acts of attending, perceiving, recalling, and thinking about the world and human beings were understood primarily as knowers. Heidegger, in contrast, viewed humans as being primarily concerned creatures with an emphasis on their fate in an alien world.

Consciousness is not separate from the world, in Heidegger’s view, but is a formation of historically lived experience. He believed that understanding is a basic form of human existence in that understanding is not a way we know the world, but rather the way we are. Koch (1995) outlined Heidegger’s emphasis on the historicality of understanding as one’s background or situatedness in the world. Historicality, a person’s history or background, includes what a culture gives a person from birth and is handed down, presenting ways of understanding the world. Through this understanding, one determines what is ‘real’, yet Heidegger also believed that one’s background cannot be made completely explicit. Munhall (1989) described Heidegger as having a view of people and the world as indissolubly related in cultural, in social and in historical contexts.

Interpretation is seen as critical to this process of understanding. Claiming that to be human was to interpret, Heidegger (1927/1962) stressed that every encounter involves an interpretation influenced by an individual’s background or historicality. Polkinghorne (1983) described this interpretive process as concentrating on historical meanings of experience and their development and cumulative effects on individual and social levels.

This interpretive process is achieved through a hermeneutic circle which moves from the parts of experience, to the whole of experience and back and forth again and again to increase the depth of engagement with and the understanding of texts [interview transcripts] (Annells, 1996; Polkinghorne, 1983). Kvale (1996) viewed the end of this spiraling through a hermeneutic circle as occurring when one has reached a place of sensible meaning, free of inner contradictions, for the moment.

Sources

http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/2_3final/pdf/laverty.pdf
(Laverty explains the differences between Husserl's way of phenomenology and Heidegger's way phenomenology)

Hermeneutic Phenomenological  Research Method Simplified - 2011 article
http://www.ku.edu.np/bodhi/vol5_no1/11.%20Narayan%20Kafle.%20Hermeneutic%20Phenomenological%20Research%20Method.pdf



Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research: A Practical Guide for Nurse Researchers
 By Marlene Zichi Cohen
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=jPIqRic8TXMC  

Hermeneutic Phenomenological study of Philanthropian Leaders
Lisa Barrow
http://www.bookpump.com/dps/pdf-b/1122373b.pdf


Understanding and Leading Organization - A Hermeneutic Philosophical Investigation
Dominik Heil
http://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/wp-app/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Issue1_2010-Heil.pdf


Phenomenological Reduction and Emergent Design: Complementary Methods for Leadership Narrative Interpretation and Metanarrative Development
Donald L. Gilstrap
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
International Journal of Qualitative Methods 6 (1) March 2007
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/article/viewFile/469/455


Authentic leadership and the narrative self
Raymond T. Sparrowe
The Leadership Quarterly 16 (2005) 419 – 439

Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy (Google eBook)
Max Van Manen
SUNY Press, 01-Jan-1990 - Education - 202 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fBCZ5n6okOYC


Researching Lived Experience, Second Edition: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy
Max van Manen
First published in 1990
Routledge, 16-Jun-2016 - Social Science - 220 pages

Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense, the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First published in 1990, this book is a classic of social science methodology and phenomenological research, selling tens of thousands of copies over the past quarter century. Left Coast is making available the second edition of this work, never before released outside Canada. Researching Lived Experience offers detailed methodological explications and practical examples of inquiry. It shows how to orient oneself to human experience in education and how to construct a textual question which evokes a fundamental sense of wonder, and it provides a broad and systematic set of approaches for gaining experiential material which forms the basis for textual reflections. The author: -Discusses the part played by language in educational research-Pays special attention to the methodological function of anecdotal narrative in research-Offers approaches to structuring the research text in relation to the particular kinds of questions being studied
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=1LZmDAAAQBAJ

Investigating subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience
Carolyn Ellis, 1992
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Investigating_Subjectivity.html?id=Fakwo1jA8mMC

Researching Entrepreneurship as Livid Experience
http://henrikberglund.com/Phenomenology.pdf

Conducting phenomenological research: Rationalizing the methods and rigour of the phenomenology of practice.
Errasti-Ibarrondo B1,2,3, Jordán JA4, Díez-Del-Corral MP1,3, Arantzamendi M2,3.
To offer a complete outlook in a readable easy way of van Manen's hermeneutic-phenomenological method to nurses interested in undertaking phenomenological research.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29543383



A presentation of research on negative capability done using hermeneutic phenomenology by Anil Behal.
Phd oral presentation
8 April 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNURaOGy8Hg
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