Limitations and dangers in interpretive phenomenological research will be explicated with subsequent ways to safeguard warranted narrative analyses. Reading across the texts often utilizes feminisms, critical social theory and postmodern discourses to create converging conversations with the themes described by interpretive phenomenology. We will examine feminisms, critical social theory and postmodern discourse in the context of exemplar studies. A methodology for family health and health promotion study in nursing. This encounter between reader and text is central in hermeneutical research.
Silence speaks and listening to text speak is a place to explore in issues of hearing the unspoken.
Creating thoughtful and though-provoking written narrative interpretations will be examined. State University of New York Press. Thinking is changed, reaffirmed and extended as themes are from interpretive phenomenological studies are brought into conversations with other approaches to the same phenomena using another paradigm of research. Likewise the new understandings for nursing education and research when viewed from the explicated themes generated in interpretive phenomenological analyzes. We will explore together the utility in interpretive scholarship and narratives and the converging conversations they create toward a future of new possibilities for nursing research, education and practice at the threshold of the millennium.