Building comprehensive narratives from dialogical encounters: A path in search of meanings

• Autor(a) principal: BRISOLA,Elizabeth Brown Vallim
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: CURY,Vera Engler, DAVIDSON,Larry
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-166X2017000400467
• topic: Dialogical encounters; Narratives; Phenomenological research

Abstract Phenomenological investigations are concerned with unfolding the nature of a phenomenon through the process of describing and understanding subjective lived experiences. The process through which this is accomplished varies according to the underlying philosophical concepts and specific methodological strategies adopted. A common means of achieving this objective is through hours-long interviews that are recorded and later transcribed and analyzed. The present article describes an alternative method that accesses the participants’ experiences of a phenomenon through encounters with a researcher, who then uses dialogical data to develop comprehensive narratives. These are written in first person in order to grasp the participant’s significant meanings based on what emerged during their encounter and its impact on the researcher. A narrative synthesis is then constructed in order to enable the phenomenological process of analysis to reach the structural elements based on all participants’ experiences. Exemplary excerpts are presented in order to illustrate the process.