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Achieving Empathy and Engagement

A practical approach to the design, conduct and reporting of phenomenographic research

Bibliographic Data

ID5110072
AuthorsPeter Ashworth, Ursula Lucas
Year2000
Volume25
Issue3
Pages295-308
Publication date2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713696153
OpenAlexW2068014034
LanguageEN
Citations received58
References cited22

Phenomenography is a methodology which has been quietly influential in research on higher education, having been the basis of many studies of approaches to learning and student understandings of a wide range of concepts in a variety of disciplines. Yet there is a need to clarify important aspects of the methodology so that it can be used with increasing effectiveness. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion and clarification of the phenomenographic research approach on two counts. Firstly, it is argued that phenomenography would benefit from a more rigorous consideration of how to engage with the student’s lived experience. Secondly, drawing on that discussion, the paper sets out a series of guidelines for the conduct of phenomenographic research and demonstrates how these might be achieved in practice by drawing on the experience of two higher education research studies: one into students’ experiences of cheating and the other into lecturers’ and students’ experiences of the teaching and learning of accounting

Cheating · Empathy · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Phenomenography · Sociology · Teaching method · Engineering · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works58
Citations per year2,64
Citation span2004 - 2026 (23)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 55
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