Preface
1. Human Science
Introduction
Why Do Human Science Research?
What Is a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Human Science?
What Does it Mean to Be Rational?
What a Human Science Cannot Do
Description or Interpretation?
Research--Procedures, Techniques, and Methods
Methodical Structure of Human Science Research
2. Turning to the Nature of Lived Experience
The Nature of Lived Experience
Orienting to the Phenomenon
Formulating the Phenomenological Question
Explicating Assumptions and Pre-understandings
3. Investigating Experience as We Live It
The Nature of Date (datum: thing given or granted)
Using Personal Experience as a Starting Point
Tracing Etymological Sources
Searching Idiomatic Phrases
Obtaining Experiential Descriptions from Others
Protocol Writing (lived-experience descriptions)
Interviewing (the personal life story)
Observing (the experiential anecdote)
Experiential Descriptions in Literature
Biography as a Resource for Experiential Material
Diaries, Journals, and Logs as Sources of Lived Experiences
Art as a Source of Lived Experience
Consulting Phenomenological Literature
4. Hermeneutic Phenomenological Reflection
Conducting Thematic Analysis
Situations
Seeking Meaning
What Is a Theme?
The Pedagogy of Theme
Uncovering Thematic Aspects
Isolating Thematic Statements
Composing Linguistic Transformations
Gleaning Thematic Descriptions from Artistic Sources
Interpretation through Conversation
Collaborative Analysis: The Research Seminar/Group
Lifeworld Existnetials as Guides to Reflection
Determining Incidental and Essential Themes
5. Hermeneutic Phenomenological Writing
Attending to the Speaking of Language
Silence--the Limits and Power of Language
Anecdote as a Methodological Device
The Value of Anecdotal Narrative
Varying the Examples
Writing Mediates Reflection and Action
To Write is to Measure Our Thoughtfulness
Writing Exercises the Ability to See
To Write is to Show Something
To Write is to Rewrite
6. Maintaining a Strong and Oriented Relation
The Relation Between Research/Writing and Pedagogy
On the Ineffability of Pedagogy
"Seeing" Pedagogy
The Pedagogic Practice of Textuality
Human Science as Critically Oriented Action Research
Action Sensitive Knowledge Leads to Pedagogic Competence
7. Balancing the Research Context by Considering Parts and Whole
The Research Proposal
Effects and Ethics of Human Science Research
Plan and Context of a Research Project
Working the Text
Glossary
Bibliography
Index