Transcription of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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The aim of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is to explore indetail how participants are making sense of their personal and social world,and the main currency for an IPA study is the meanings particular experiences,events, states hold for participants. The approach is Phenomenological (seeChapter 3) in that it involves detailed examination of the participant s life-world; it attempts to explore personal experience and is concerned with anindividual s personal perception or account of an object or event, as opposedto an attempt to produce an objective statement of the object or event the same time, IPA also emphasizes that the research exercise is a dynamicprocess with an active role for the researcher in that process.
ing and sense-making links it quite closely to the original concerns of cogni-tive psychology in its rejection of the behavourist paradigm that had thus far dominated the discipline.It is interesting to see how Bruner (1990),one of the founders of the cognitive approach, regrets how it swiftly moved from a cen-
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