We will discuss understanding, interpreting and critique in the context of an exemplar narratives. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Themes and stories about living with the pain and suffering. The practices of reading, writing, thinking and dialogue are central to interpretive scholarship. We will together design an experience of interpreting narratives.
Exemplar studies proffer a panoply of approaches to interpretive phenomenological scholarship.
We will read our interpretations to each other and explore how themes emerge during cycles of hermeneutical analyses while we begin to explore how to read across texts using other approaches to interpretive scholarship such as critical social theory, feminisms, and postmodern discourses. The conflict between private reading and public reading. State University of New York Press. Genres as lived experiences. Limitations and dangers in interpretive phenomenological research will be explicated with subsequent ways to safeguard warranted narrative analyses.