How to Conduct Research

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In this chapter, I will discuss how to collect data using the hermeneutic phenomenological approach. First, I will offer and elaborate on the metaphor of building a field text through data collection as a useful way for the beginner to think about how to conduct research. I will then discuss interviews, fieldnotes, and the collection of other documents, all of which can be thought of as layers of the field text. Finally, I will end with some basic advice for new researchers about building data collection skills. Life is experienced in the present at hand but not studied, analyzed, or interpreted in that same moment. Experience, and the meanings that arise through experience, can be studied only ...

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