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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"van Manen"”.
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Phenomenology of School Leaders' Experiences of Ethical Dilemmas
… phenomenological approach described by Max Van Manen (1990, 2014) to explore the question: How do school leaders experience ethical dilemmas in their role as school leaders? Hermeneutic phenomenology seeks to find the meaning of a phenomenon, which in this case is the experience of an …
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'All in a day's work' The lifeworld of older people in New Zealand rest homes
… draws on the lifeworld as understood by Max van Manen (1990) and Alfred Schütz (1972). The lifeworld is made up of thematic strands of lived experience: these being lived space, lived time, lived body and lived relations with others, which are both the source and object of phenomenological …
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UNDERSTANDING NURSES’ EXPERIENCES OF PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE UNITED STATES HOSPITAL SETTING
… nurses are a meaningful source from which to advance holistic end-of-life care. In this study, a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective was used to explore the phenomenon of end-of-life nursing care. Details derived from a scientific exploration into the experiences of 13 registered nurses who …
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Learning to become a subject: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of students in a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Germany
… approach inspired by Gadamer (Gadamer, 2013) and van Manen (van Manen, 1990) and then a grounded approach (Corbin and Holt, 2011) was used to construct common themes across the cases. Samples of the translations were judged as reliable and the data analysis as plausible by two appropriately …
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Phenomenon of becoming a midwife
… in a hermeneutic framework as described by van Manen (1990). I chose to undertake a longitudinal study as the length of the students’ course of study was three years. My study recruited two cohorts of student midwives from two universities in the North West of England (n=90). Each university …
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The clearing of being: a phenomenological study of openness in psychotherapy
… with extensive reference to the work of van Manen (2014, 2002, 1990). Data was gathered from a rich diversity of sources: philosophical texts, a review of the secondary literature, interviews with participants, exploration of metaphor and the researcher’s anecdotal writings. The study was …
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The pedagogical significance of the life and work of artist Helen Grey-Smith
… study, as explained by Van Manen (1990). This method allows for the study of unique human experience and is consistent with the values of feminist research. The method of data collection was through a series of tape recorded conversations conducted at Helen Grey-Smith's …
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The Lived Experience of Emergency Service Personnel in Pediatric Resuscitation and Unexpected Death: A Phenomenological Study
… approach based on the philosophy of Max van Manen (1990) was used to guide this study. Using an open-ended format, a purposive sample of emergency service personnel, who experienced an unexpected pediatric death, were interviewed. The research question asked: What is it like for you when …
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Noneconomic Barriers to Health Care Utilization by African-Americans
… This phenomenological study was based on Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach (Van Manen, 1990). Data were collected from participants on their experiences gaining access to and utilizing health care systems. As data were analyzed, six themes emerged. These themes were: delay …
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A Phenomenological Study of Young Women With Fibromyalgia: "It's Not All In My Head"
… Using the phenomenological approach described by van Manen, the interviews yield a story for each woman, describing the effects of a debilitating, chronic pain condition on day-to-day experiences, relationships, and self-image. The women’s narratives also explore the daily battles these women wage …
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A Phenomenological Study of Women's Lived Experiences of Disrespect and Abuse in Maternal and Child Health Services (MCH) in Lusaka District, Zambia
… and a phenomenological approach informed by van Manen, in-depth interviews were conducted with postnatal women attending three public Level 1 health facilities. Data were analyzed through iterative reading, identification of significant statements, formulation of meaning units and thematic …
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The influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District, South Africa
… outcomes of the study. The researcher used the Van Manen method to analyse data. Contrary to popular belief that THPs promote non-adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), the study found out that the majority of Traditional Healing Practitioners (THPs) encourage and positively …
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Supporting Student Nurses By The Educational Use of Self: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of the Mentor Experience
… Dasein and the four lifeworld existentials (van Manen, 1997). For these respondents, the mentoring experience was rewarding, satisfying, frustrating, and even distressing at times. Being a mentor meant existing in worlds of ‘high stakes’, ‘hope for the nursing profession’ and ‘fragments’, …
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The Lived Experience of Counselor Education Doctoral Students in the Cohort Model at Duquesne University
… model. The existential framework proposed by van Manen (1990) provided a framework for describing and understanding students' lived experiences in the corporeal, temporal, spatial, and relational realms of experience. The strategies used for this inquiry were based on multiple informants and …
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Exploring the experience of sexuality and gender during the healthcare transition of the youth with Cerebral Palsy
… gender diversity may be ignored, or deemed irrelevant as a result of their disability status. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to explore how gender and sexuality may influence the experience of health care transition for youth with cerebral palsy. Method: This is a qualitative study guided …
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Effective Use of Digital Technologies of High School Teachers as Digital Immigrants in Six Rural Public Schools
… 2007) approach to explore “lived experiences” (Van Manen, 1990) of secondary teachers who use technology effectively in their classrooms for teaching and learning. I conducted in depth semi-structured individual interviews with five digital immigrants who fit this description. Using purposive …
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Patients' and caregivers' inside perspectives: living with a left-ventricular assist device as destination therapy
… the quality of life for many patients with advanced heart failure. Past research focused on technology issues and survival rates, but patients' and caregivers' perspectives of living with an LVAD as a destination therapy (e.g., permanent alternative to transplant) was not explored. Roy's …
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Living with locally advanced rectal cancer: an exploration of the everydayness of living with rectal cancer
Advances in treatment and prolonged survival times mean that increasingly individuals are living with advanced cancer, yet services remain disease orientated. This thesis has documented the process of undertaking a longitudinal qualitative study to explore the everydayness of living with locally …
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How do mental health practitioners experience and understand resilience: The risk of death in mental healthcare
… were transcribed and analysed, following van Manen (1990). Themes: 1: Not-disengaging in an emotional process. To not disengage, but to stay with feelings and concerns in the face of death. Being with, in the moment, under the pressure of time, often with conflicting expectations around …
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Into the intangible: an exploration of gravity dream motifs among psychotherapists
… The ‘Phenomenology of Practice,’ as described by Van Manen was used to guide the methodology. Three final thematic aspects were established through the interviews. The first was essential to the experience of the gravity dream: The necessary dream, the changing motif and the journey of the …
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