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Elizabeth C. Smythe is a New Zealand midwifery and nursing academic, and is an emeritus professor at the Auckland University of Technology.Smythe's research focuses on hermeneutic phenomenology, which is the study of interpretive structures of experience, to improve healthcare experiences and clinical practice.
Hermeneutics (/ h ɜːr m ə ˈ nj uː t ɪ k s /) [1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, [2] [3] especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
Other types include hermeneutic, genetic, and embodied phenomenology. All these different branches of phenomenology may be seen as representing different philosophies despite sharing the common foundational approach of phenomenological inquiry; that is, investigating things just as they appear, independent of any particular theoretical framework.
The Robert Gordon University, Auckland University of Technology, Robert Gordon University School of Nursing and Midwifery Susan Crowther is a British–New Zealand academic midwife, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology , specialising in midwifery, birthing experiences and employing an hermeneutic phenomenology approach.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative form of psychology research. IPA has an idiographic focus, which means that instead of producing generalization findings, it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given situation .
Hermeneutic circle. The hermeneutic circle (German: hermeneutischer Zirkel) describes the process of understanding a text hermeneutically.It refers to the idea that one's understanding of the text as a whole is established by reference to the individual parts and one's understanding of each individual part by reference to the whole.
Max van Manen (born 1942) is a Dutch-born Canadian scholar who specializes in phenomenological research methods and pedagogy.There are several interesting publications to conduct phenomenology of practice.
Analecta Hermeneutica is the annual refereed journal of the International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH) which publishes contributions in all hermeneutically related fields in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish with a particular focus on philosophy, theology, and comparative literature.