Peter Ashworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Ashworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashworth |
| SIGNATURE | ASHWORTH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The lifeworld – enriching qualitative evidence
The focus of research of phenomenological psychology is experience that is made up of the object to which consciousness refers, plus a mode of consciousness (e.g., perception, judgement, remembering). But the objects of experience are not “free floating.” Any experience is inevitably interwoven with the rest of the individual’s lifeworld. In this article, I argue that there are necessary aspects, or fractions, of any lifeworld whatsoever: selfhoo…
The complexity of psychological phenomena
The phenomenology of ‘approach to studying’
‘Approach to studying’ research focuses on the manner (deep, surface, etc.) in which studying is grasped. This is the Husserlian ‘noesis’, the mental orientation, to studying. In this article, it is argued that attention must also be given to the subjective meaning of studying and of what is studied – the Husserlian ‘noema’. However, the noema/noesis distinction, though it draws attention to the poverty of characterising approaches to studying si…
Can't Really Trust That, So What Can I Trust?”
This paper describes an experiment in carrying out, as a group, a phenomenological analysis of a qualitative interview on the topic of mistrust. One in-depth interview was analyzed phenomenologically by each of the six members of our group. We then shared and discussed our individual analyses to generate a consensual analysis. Finally, additional or divergent perspectives were offered by individual group members to add further contextual and refl…
The phenomenology of ‘approach to studying’
The Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI) was based on qualitative research by Marton and Säljö, which established ‘surface’ and ‘deep’ approaches to study. This article attempts a new qualitative explication of the meanings of study. A heuristic due to Husserl is employed which distinguishes between the ‘noema’, the subjective object of awareness, and the ‘noesis’, the manner of mental activity in which the object is grasped. It is argued that …
The descriptive adequacy of qualitative findings
Achieving Empathy and Engagement
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 pheno…
"Bracketing" in phenomenology
The suspension of presuppositions (the epoche, or bracketing) arose historically as part of Husserl's "transcendental reduction," allowing the contemplation of detached consciousness. Merleau-Ponty interpreted Husserl's later work in an existentialist way, and bracketing became the resolve to set aside theories, research presuppositions, ready-made interpretations etc., in order to reveal engaged, lived experience. The focus of this paper is on r…
Guilty in whose eyes? University students' perceptions of cheating and plagiarism in academic work and assessment
The little published work on cheating and plagiarism amongst students in higher education has, almost without exception, used questionnaire techniques which take for granted a shared understanding of the issues involved. The work reports the use of a qualitative methodology which attempts to discover the student perception of cheating and plagiarism without presupposing that students start from the same premises as academics. Prominent among the …
The primacy of conversation
The primacy of conversation Steinar Kvale (1996). InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., pp 325. $42.00 (cloth), $19.95 (pb)
The Meaning of "Participation" in Participant Observation
Whether writers have a postmodernist orientation or a residual concern to defend the technique against positivist criticisms as providing unequivocal scientific data, theoretically systematic accounts of participant observation in terms of its nature as a social activity carried out by conscious human agents are missing from the literature of health research and the human sciences generally. In this article, the technique of participant observati…
The inexact and separate science of economics
The descriptive adequacy of qualitative findings
A British Workshop on qualitative research in the human sciences
L'enfer, c'est les autres’
Social Interaction and Consciousness
Guilty in whose eyes? University students' perceptions of cheating and plagiarism in academic work and assessment
The little published work on cheating and plagiarism amongst students in higher education has, almost without exception, used questionnaire techniques which take for granted a shared understanding of the issues involved. The work reports the use of a qualitative methodology which attempts to discover the student perception of cheating and plagiarism without presupposing that students start from the same premises as academics. Prominent among the …
"Bracketing" in phenomenology
The suspension of presuppositions (the epoche, or bracketing) arose historically as part of Husserl's "transcendental reduction," allowing the contemplation of detached consciousness. Merleau-Ponty interpreted Husserl's later work in an existentialist way, and bracketing became the resolve to set aside theories, research presuppositions, ready-made interpretations etc., in order to reveal engaged, lived experience. The focus of this paper is on r…
Achieving Empathy and Engagement
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 pheno…
Can't Really Trust That, So What Can I Trust?”
This paper describes an experiment in carrying out, as a group, a phenomenological analysis of a qualitative interview on the topic of mistrust. One in-depth interview was analyzed phenomenologically by each of the six members of our group. We then shared and discussed our individual analyses to generate a consensual analysis. Finally, additional or divergent perspectives were offered by individual group members to add further contextual and refl…
The phenomenology of ‘approach to studying’
The Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI) was based on qualitative research by Marton and Säljö, which established ‘surface’ and ‘deep’ approaches to study. This article attempts a new qualitative explication of the meanings of study. A heuristic due to Husserl is employed which distinguishes between the ‘noema’, the subjective object of awareness, and the ‘noesis’, the manner of mental activity in which the object is grasped. It is argued that …
The Meaning of "Participation" in Participant Observation
Whether writers have a postmodernist orientation or a residual concern to defend the technique against positivist criticisms as providing unequivocal scientific data, theoretically systematic accounts of participant observation in terms of its nature as a social activity carried out by conscious human agents are missing from the literature of health research and the human sciences generally. In this article, the technique of participant observati…
The lifeworld – enriching qualitative evidence
The focus of research of phenomenological psychology is experience that is made up of the object to which consciousness refers, plus a mode of consciousness (e.g., perception, judgement, remembering). But the objects of experience are not “free floating.” Any experience is inevitably interwoven with the rest of the individual’s lifeworld. In this article, I argue that there are necessary aspects, or fractions, of any lifeworld whatsoever: selfhoo…
L'enfer, c'est les autres’
Social Interaction and Consciousness
Social Interaction and Consciousness
L'enfer, c'est les autres’
A British Workshop on qualitative research in the human sciences
The descriptive adequacy of qualitative findings
The inexact and separate science of economics
The Meaning of "Participation" in Participant Observation
Whether writers have a postmodernist orientation or a residual concern to defend the technique against positivist criticisms as providing unequivocal scientific data, theoretically systematic accounts of participant observation in terms of its nature as a social activity carried out by conscious human agents are missing from the literature of health research and the human sciences generally. In this article, the technique of participant observati…
The primacy of conversation
The primacy of conversation Steinar Kvale (1996). InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., pp 325. $42.00 (cloth), $19.95 (pb)
Guilty in whose eyes? University students' perceptions of cheating and plagiarism in academic work and assessment
The little published work on cheating and plagiarism amongst students in higher education has, almost without exception, used questionnaire techniques which take for granted a shared understanding of the issues involved. The work reports the use of a qualitative methodology which attempts to discover the student perception of cheating and plagiarism without presupposing that students start from the same premises as academics. Prominent among the …
"Bracketing" in phenomenology
The suspension of presuppositions (the epoche, or bracketing) arose historically as part of Husserl's "transcendental reduction," allowing the contemplation of detached consciousness. Merleau-Ponty interpreted Husserl's later work in an existentialist way, and bracketing became the resolve to set aside theories, research presuppositions, ready-made interpretations etc., in order to reveal engaged, lived experience. The focus of this paper is on r…
The descriptive adequacy of qualitative findings
Achieving Empathy and Engagement
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 pheno…
The phenomenology of ‘approach to studying’
The Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI) was based on qualitative research by Marton and Säljö, which established ‘surface’ and ‘deep’ approaches to study. This article attempts a new qualitative explication of the meanings of study. A heuristic due to Husserl is employed which distinguishes between the ‘noema’, the subjective object of awareness, and the ‘noesis’, the manner of mental activity in which the object is grasped. It is argued that …
Can't Really Trust That, So What Can I Trust?”
This paper describes an experiment in carrying out, as a group, a phenomenological analysis of a qualitative interview on the topic of mistrust. One in-depth interview was analyzed phenomenologically by each of the six members of our group. We then shared and discussed our individual analyses to generate a consensual analysis. Finally, additional or divergent perspectives were offered by individual group members to add further contextual and refl…
The phenomenology of ‘approach to studying’
‘Approach to studying’ research focuses on the manner (deep, surface, etc.) in which studying is grasped. This is the Husserlian ‘noesis’, the mental orientation, to studying. In this article, it is argued that attention must also be given to the subjective meaning of studying and of what is studied – the Husserlian ‘noema’. However, the noema/noesis distinction, though it draws attention to the poverty of characterising approaches to studying si…
The complexity of psychological phenomena
The lifeworld – enriching qualitative evidence
The focus of research of phenomenological psychology is experience that is made up of the object to which consciousness refers, plus a mode of consciousness (e.g., perception, judgement, remembering). But the objects of experience are not “free floating.” Any experience is inevitably interwoven with the rest of the individual’s lifeworld. In this article, I argue that there are necessary aspects, or fractions, of any lifeworld whatsoever: selfhoo…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Reflective Practices in Education (4 works)