The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology
ISSN: 0022-0418
Article publication date: 29 September 2022
Issue publication date: 4 April 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this short reflection is to allow for an informed use of both phenomenography and phenomenology in information studies and cognate fields.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper apprises uses of phenomenography found particularly in accounts of information literacy commonly describing phenomenography as distinct from phenomenology.
Findings
Both phenomenography and phenomenology continue to hold much credence in methods applied across scores of academic fields, with information studies being among those in the vanguard. Claims displaying differences of phenomenography from phenomenology are misleading and incomplete descriptions of phenomenology.
Originality/value
The paper presents newer materials on the origins of phenomenography and phenomenology to advocate for tighter relationships between and clearer applications of these methods in information studies and beyond.
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Citation
Cibangu, S.K. (2023), "The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 79 No. 3, pp. 641-669. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-10-2021-0219
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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