Phenomenography: an alternative to the usual qualitative method

Introduction Phenomenography is a method of exploring the phenomenon of interest by examining how a group of individuals experience said phenomenon, uncovering the similarities and differences of this shared experience. The purpose of this paper is to outline the case for phenomenography as a research method ideally suited to explore the complex problems encountered by nurses and midwives within their everyday practice. Research paradigm Phenomenography emerged in the mid-1970s from the landmark study by Marton and Saljo1 2 where they endeavoured to explain why students at the same university and course arrived at different solutions for the same problems. Phenomenography is a second-order perspective because it focuses on participants and is concerned with understanding the collective view rather than understanding an experience through multiple individual experiences. A key assumption is that individual experiences are ‘logically related’ when phenomena they experience are the...
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