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Abstract:
In geoscience education, norm-referenced (performance-based) research has great utility in assessing the efficacy of classroom methods, prior student knowledge, teaching styles or an instructor's approach to subject matter. However, qualitative social science methods, such as hermeneutic phenomenology, present opportunities to dig deeper into students' and instructors' lived experiences in the teaching and learning process. Such methodologies more directly accommodate the questions of why or how something works, or doesn't work, and how lived experiences are internalized and subsequently translated into the external environment.
This paper will describe the theoretical framework of hermeneutic phenomenology, its application to select geoscience education research questions, and a tutorial on ethnographic data generation and interpretation.
See more from this Division: Topical Sessions
See more from this Session: Geocognition: Researching Student Learning in the Geosciences