Demo Session 4: Formulating the Research Questions and the Interview Guide for Transcendental Phenomenology

14:30 -16:00 (Johannesburg timetable) | In-person Session

Transcendental phenomenology aims to describe a lived experience as it is experienced freshly and purely (Brinkmann 2018; Moustakas, 1994). The central questions are what it is like for one to experience the phenomenon, what are the contexts of the phenomenon (Moustakas, 1994), and how the participants view themselves in relation to the phenomenon in the future (Seidman, 2006). Among the questions researchers ask when designing a transcendental phenomenology are: (a) How do researchers capture a phenomenological experience? and (b) What questions do researchers ask to generate phenomenological data? This demonstration will focus on answering these questions. There will be exercises on formulating the research questions given different phenomena, followed by formulating the interview guide.