Phenom to finish

 Phenomenology is an approach that takes fully into account complex multiple realities and the social construction of reality and has proved popular in the social sciences (Denscombe, 2011; Creswell and Creswell, 2013). It is not primarily concerned with explaining causes, offering explanations or analysis (Moustakas, 2009)  it asks ‘what is the meaning, structure, and essence of a particular lived experience for a person or a group of people (Patton, 2002; p.104), and due to a bracketed approach is from the participants perspectives in their own words (Denscombe, 1998; Heidegger, 1962; Moustakas, 1994; Crotty, 1998).


Bracketing is…

Husserl - objective researcher 

Heidegger - researcher can’t be objective, because they design and interpret research (Creswell, 2013, Denscombe, 1998).

Recognise I bring to this my background as a teacher and digital accessibility subject knowledge.


The phenomenological approach is useful for research in education and for those wanting to understand the thinking of teachers and pupils (Crotty, 1998; Van Manen, 1990; Denscombe, 1998; Tesch, 1988). It offers the opportunity to capture the importance of the mundane and the trivial which often gets missed, and these insights could prove useful and significant to understanding the nuances and intricacies of everyday teaching practice. However, because of this and its small-scale contextual focus, phenomenology research comes with its criticisms as lacking in the more scientific rigour, and because of its broad descriptive focus rather than numerical data or generalised findings that could be replicated it can be seen as unimportant compared to the bigger issues and studies that could inform policy (Denscombe, 1998). However, to mitigate this argument this research aims only to be exploratory, to act as a guide into everyday insights of the teachers experiencing the piloting of ideas for a new curriculum topic and to identify the types of everyday support needed in planning and delivering the teaching of digital accessibility.

ADD -Thematic analysis versus IPA – draws on the tradition of grounded theory - as well as additional literature integration and analysis when themes have been identified. (SMITH)

Draw from the tradition of Grounded theory – the data will speak for itself - with a combination of exploring any themes identified in literature- not saturation of theories but descriptive

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