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Showing 1 to 20 of 1021 for “"phenomenological study"”.
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Migraine: An Existential Phenomenological Study
This study examined the structure of the migraine headache experience. Three adult participants were asked to give a written answer to the question: "Please describe a time you experienced a migraine headache. Please explain what was happening before the headache, during the headache and how it was …
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Women Mentoring Women: A Phenomenological Study
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of ten business and professional women who have experienced a mentoring relationship as a mentor or protegee with another woman, to understand the essence of their mentoring experience, and to know more about their participation as …
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Self-forgiveness: A narrative phenomenological study
… literature. To that end, an interpretive study was undertaken. Three research participants, all of who reported an instance of self-forgiveness, were interviewed at great length and depth, their stories providing the data for this research. Using the theoretical insights of Paul Ricoeur …
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Alternative Education Completers: A Phenomenological Study
… of the alternative education program? The phenomenological paradigm will provide the framework for all aspects of the qualitative study with the progressive theory imparting the theoretical foundation.</p> <p>Students, parents of those students, administrators, and staff members of two …
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Experiences of Moral Commitment: A Phenomenological Study
This study's purpose was to increase understanding and meaning of the lived experience of moral commitment as practiced by participants at the time of the study, not in retrospective. Phenomenology was the research methodology selected to elicit participants' understanding of moral commitment …
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Factors Impacting Doctoral Success: A Phenomenological Study
In my phenomenological qualitative study, I explored the experiences of African American men who had completed their doctoral degrees, specifically focusing on the factors that contributed to their academic success. I examined historical challenges and influential policies that affected educational …
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A Phenomenological Study of African American Elementary Teachers
… in our nation’s classrooms. Procedures: This phenomenological study (Moustakas, 1994) explored the lived experiences of six elementary African American elementary teachers in one Midwest state. A single overarching question will guide this study: How do African American teachers make meaning …
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Life goals in elderly women: A phenomenological study
The domain of the study was stated as: What is the fundamental structure of the lived experience of personal goals in elderly females? Eleven women between the ages of 71 and 83 years were interviewed and constituted a purposive sample. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed by the …
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Making decisions in mental healthcare : a phenomenological study
… and/or fail to act in their own interests. This study asks how mental health service users are involved in decisions; how do their workers understand this and what does this mean for policy and practice. The use of an innovative research methodology in this field of study is evaluated. …
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The experience of insight : an existential-phenomenological study
… for insight is not yet understood. The present study examines nine different approaches to the experience of insight: the holistic approach of gestalt psychology; the existential approach of phenomenological psychology; the puzzle-problem approach of cognitive psychology; the creative approach …
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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Abstract The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic …
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The athletic training clinical experience: A phenomenological study
<p>The purpose of this study was to understand how students experience the clinical component of their preparation and the phenomenon of integration. Integration is the application of scientific content knowledge into a setting that reflects the real world of practice. Within the athletic training …
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Leadership perceptions of Krishnamurti school administrators: a phenomenological study
… teachers and administrators of each school, this study sought to discern administrators' perceptual experiences of how they interpreted Krishnamurti's educational intentions, translated them into educational aims, and created school cultures that cohered with those aims. This study examines the …
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Secular Students’ Perceptions of Christian Rhetoric: A Phenomenological Study
… Christian rhetoric. Thus, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how secular, Gen Z, college students have experienced the phenomenon of Christian rhetoric. In an effort to increase understanding of participants’ experiences with the phenomenon, open-ended questions were …
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A Heideggerian phenomenological study of nurses' experience of presence
… intersubjectivity or presence. This Heideggerian phenomenological study enabled the researcher to explore six registered nurses' meaning of presence as experienced within their clinical practice. These registered nurses were all clinicians with extensive experience in a variety of clinical …
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A phenomenological study of the Christian experience of God
… of God without any preconceptions or bias. This study explores the way Christians experience God. This is done by means of a phenomenological explication of first hand descriptions of six participants. The primary aim of the study is to describe, and come to a better understanding of the …
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