Phenomenology-Hui and Crystal

Pursuant to Wikipedia, ‘Phenomenology’ is defined as as “the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness’. This concept was originally founded by Edmund Husserl. Husserl argued that phenomenology is a methodology to study the pure ‘phenomena’ and examine how things are appearing to their own consciousness. Phenomenology is driven by the action word of “describe”, to describe the phenomenon as accurately as possible to pursue pursue objectivity while trying to stay away from any pre-justices, any existing framework, but only to the facts. This type of methodology applies very well with study of lived experiences. There are some variations of phenomenology which may include transcendental constitutive phenomenology, naturalistic constitutive phenomenology, and etc. Groenewald (2004)’s paper on “A Phenomenological Research Design illustrated” is a phenomenological research.

Citation:
Groenewald, T. (2004). A  phenomenological  research design illustrated.   International  Journal of  Qualitative  Methods, 3(1). Article  4. Retrieved [INSERT  DATE]  from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/3_1/pdf/groenewald.pdf