Crafting Phenomenological Research - Softcover

Vagle, Mark D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611323029 ISBN 13: 9781611323023

Publisher: Left Coast Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is an accessible, concise introduction to phenomenological research in education and social sciences. Mark Vagle outlines the key principles for conducting this research from leading contemporary practitioners, such as van Manen, Giorgi, and Dahlberg. He builds on their work by introducing his post-intentional phenomenology, which incorporates elements of post-structural thinking into traditional methods. Vagle provides readers with methodological tools to build their own phenomenological study, addressing such issues as data gathering, validity, and writing. Replete with exercises for students, case studies, resources for further research, and examples of completed phenomenological studies, this brief book affords the instructor an easy entrée into introducing phenomenology into courses on qualitative research, social theory, or educational research.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark D. Vagle is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively on phenomenological research in education journals and regularly teaches university courses and professional workshops on the subject. Vagle is principal author and editor of Not a stage! A critical re-conception of young adolescent education and coeditor of Developmentalism in early childhood and middle grades education.

Review:

“Mark Vagle’s book is sure to be the go-to source for those who want to do phenomenological research in the social sciences. He not only explains the genealogy of phenomenological theories but also provides hands-on, practical examples of how they permeate a life, how they take hold in one’s bones, how they create a new way of being with the world. Vagle’s approach is joyous but also careful, critical, and contemporary as he extends phenomenology, opening it up to new imaginings demanded by 21st century inquiry.”

―Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia

About this edition

• Publisher: Left Coast Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611323029
• ISBN 13: 9781611323023
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176