Researchers are advocating that a necessary condition of scholarly research is congruence between philosophical positions and research approaches. Phenomenology and postpositivism, traditionally, may appear to be situated in scientific inquiry as polar opposites and mutually exclusive paradigms. This article (a) describes the reflections of a nurse researcher and clarifies her philosophical ass...

Differing schools of phenomenology are examined to acknowledge that research must appreciate their main differences in guiding the resultant phenomenological method used. Confusion between schools can lead to weaknesses and confusion in methodology this being particularly salient in applied settings examining care and quality of life. Intentionality, the phenomenological reduction and the role ...

This Best Practice information sheet has been derived from a systematic review including 27 studies 2. The review considered interpretive studies that reported the experiences of elderly individuals with stroke including, but not limited to, designs such as phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography.

Husserlian phenomenology has been used to provide (or perhaps “evoke”) the rationale for the use of soft systems approaches in both information systems (IS) research and IS development. The purpose of this brief paper is to encourage a debate about the feasibility and coherence of such projects. A (fairly) typical “interpretive” IS methodology (Soft Systems Methodology) is critically analysed u...

The phenomenological approach is increasingly being utilised as the method structure for nursing research studies. However, the nursing literature is beginning to reflect a concern with nurse researchers' adoption of phenomenological methods without, at the same time, laying the philosophical and methodological foundations on which the method is built. It is important for nursing knowledge deve...

Much has been written about measuring the feelings and impressions of women regarding their experience of miscarriage. According to the existential philosopher Heidegger life experiences such as the experience of a woman having a miscarriage can be interpreted and explained only in the context of the totality of the women's experiences in the past, the present, and the future. Thirteen in-depth...