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Hermeneutic Phenomenological Interviewing: Going Beyond Semi- Structured Formats to Help Participants Revisit Experience

Lauterbach, Alexandra A.

The Qualitative Report. Nov, 2018, Vol. 23 Issue 11, p2883, 16 p.

Nova Southeastern University, Inc., 2018.

2018

Phenomenological research traditionally involves multiple focused interviews that rely on the participants' memories and reflections to revisit experiences. There are many other interview formats that have the potential to support participants in this process by instead engaging with the phenomenon as it presents itself to their consciousness. In this paper, I present an example of how multiple interview formats, including think-aloud, stimulated recall, and semi-structured were used in a hermeneutic phenomenology study exploring expert teachers' perceptions of teaching literacy within their content area to secondary students with learning disabilities. I provide example protocols in which I used multiple interview formats (i.e., think-aloud, stimulated recall, and semi-structured) to help participants engage with the phenomenon in ways that did not rely on memory and reflection alone. I describe how the data collected during different interview formats were analyzed using hermeneutic phenomenological methods. Finally, I highlight one participant's findings, discussing how each interview contributed to the findings, and providing illustrative examples of how going beyond semi-structured formats helped this participant revisit experiences in ways that new meaning emerged and enhanced understanding of the phenomena. Keywords: Teachers, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Interviewing Phenomenological research focuses on the meaning of lived experience, or "the world as we immediately experience it pre- reflectively rather than as we conceptualize, categorize, or reflect on it" (van Manen, [...]

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