transcendental phenomenological analysis and making mobiles ron chenail nova southeastern university
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Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis and
Making Mobiles
Ron ChenailNova Southeastern University
Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis
• Many steps• Interrelated parts• Pragmatics and aesthetics• Can seem overly abstract and complex
Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis Main Processes
Epoché
Bracketing
ReductionVariation
Synthesis
Epoché and Bracketing
• Setting aside prejudgments• Opening the research interview with an
unbiased, receptive presence• Continuing this process throughout the
analytical process
Phenomenological Reduction
• Horizonalization: Every statement has equal value
• Delimited Horizons or Meanings: Horizons that stand out as invariant qualities of the experience
• Invariant Qualities and Themes: Non-repetitive, non-overlapping constituents clustered into themes
Phenomenological Reduction
• Individual Textural Descriptions: An integration, descriptively, of the invariant textural constituents and themes of each research participant
• Composite Textural Description: An integration of all of the individual textural descriptions into a group or universal textural description
Imaginative Variation
• Vary Possible Meanings• Vary Perspectives of the Phenomenon: From
different vantage points, such as opposite meanings and various roles
• Free Fantasy Variations: Consider freely the possible structural qualities or dynamics that evoke the textural qualities
Imaginative Variation
• Construct a list of structural qualities of the experience
• Develop Structural Themes: Cluster the structural qualities into themes
• Employ Universal Structures as Themes: Time, space, relationship to self, to others; bodily concerns, causal or intentional structures
Imaginative Variation
• Individual Structural Descriptions: For each co-researcher, integrate the structural qualities and themes into an individual structural description of the experience
• Composite Structural Description: An integration of all of the individual structural descriptions into a group or universal structural description
Synthesis
• Synthesis of Composite Textural and Composite Structural Descriptions
• Intuitively-reflectively integrate the composite textural and composite structural descriptions to develop a synthesis of the meanings and essences of the phenomenon or experience
• Present findings
How To Make a Mobile
• The Secret: Start from the bottom and work to the top. [Reduction to Synthesis]
• There are many ways to design a work of hanging sculpture, and as many materials, [Many types of phenomenology]
• but the assembly is always the same: start from the bottom [But the steps are basically the same].
Select and Arrange the Pieces [Reduction and Textual Description]• Find, create the shapes you wish [Horizonalization & Delimited Horizons].
•Lay them on a large piece of paper and arrange them [Invariant Qualities and Themes].
•Draw lines connecting the bottom or end pieces [Individual and Composite Textual Descriptions].
Begin Connecting the Pieces [Imaginative Variation]• Start with the small end pieces first [Individual Structural Descriptions].
•Then connect the middle systems together [Composite Structural Descriptions]
Balance the Top [Synthesis]•The top bar is last [The Essence].
•Connect the middle systems to the top bar [Intuitively-reflectively integrate the composite textural and composite structural descriptions].
•Balance [Quality control].
•Hang your new creation [Present your results]
Make Your Own Virtual Mobile
Go to the US National Gallery of Art Mobile Maker and have fun!http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/interactive/mobile.htm
Credits
• Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis slides excerpted from Moustakas, C. (1994). Phenomenological research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Color mobile slides are from Konrad's Mobiles http://www.konrads.com/
• How to make a mobile slides excerpted from "Interactivity Kit" by Timothy Rose. Retrieved January 24, 2010, from http://www.mobilesculpture.com/makeyourownmobiles/
Contact Information
• Ron Chenail• Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College
Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796 USA• Email: [email protected]