This page references many of the phenomenological articles that have moved and affected us in our research.
We’ve done our best to group the articles together by their main themes.
Encyclopedia Articles about Phenomenology
Smith, S. J. (2016). Phenomenology of movement and place. In M. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy. Springer
van Manen, M., & Adams, C. (2010). Phenomenology. In P. Peterson, E. Baker, & B. McGraw (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Third Edition). Elsevier Ltd.
van Manen, M., & Adams, C. (2014). Phenomenological pedagogy. In D. C. Phillips (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Theory & Philosophy. SAGE Publications, Inc.
van Manen, M., & van Manen, M. (2014). Phenomenology. In D. C. Phillips (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Theory & Philosophy. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Current Debates in Phenomenology
Adamiak, M., & Pokropski, M. (2018). The landscape of contemporary phenomenology. Avant (Toruń), 9(2), 9–15.
Halling, S. (2021). Phenomenology as fidelity to phenomena: Moving beyond the van Manen, Smith, and Zahavi debate. The Humanistic Psychologist, 49(2), 342–353.
Hughes, H. E. (2018). Embracing the cruel optimism of phenomenological writing. Qualitative Inquiry, 24(10), 799–809. h
Smith, J. A. (2018). “Yes it is phenomenological”: A reply to Max Van Manen’s critique of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 28(12), 1955–1958.
van Manen, M. (2017a). But is it phenomenology? Qualitative Health Research, 27(6), 775–779.
van Manen, M. (2017b). Phenomenology in its original sense. Qualitative Health Research, 27(6), 810–825.
van Manen, M. (2018). Rebuttal rejoinder: Present IPA for what it is—Interpretative Psychological Analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 28(12), 1959–1968.
van Manen, M. (2019). Rebuttal: Doing phenomenology on the things. Qualitative Health Research, 29(6), 908–925.
Zahavi, D. (2019). Getting it quite wrong: Van Manen and Smith on phenomenology. Qualitative Health Research, 29(6), 900–907.
Affectivity, Affordances, Embodied Learning, & Movement
Fuchs, T., & Koch, S. C. (2014). Embodied affectivity: On moving and being moved. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(508), 1–12.
Ingold, T. (2023). On not knowing and paying attention: How to walk in a possible world. Journal of Irish Sociology, 31(1), 20–36.
Lloyd, R. J. (2015a). From dys/function to flow: Inception, perception and dancing beyond life’s constraints. The Humanistic Psychologist, 43(1), 24–39.
Lloyd, R. J. (2015b). Learning to let go: Phenomenologically exploring the experience of a grip and release in salsa dance and everyday life. Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, 2(2), 119–139.
Lloyd, R. J. (2016). Becoming physically literate for life: Embracing the functions, forms, feelings and flows of alternative and mainstream physical activity. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 35(2), 107–116.
Lloyd, R. (2017). The Feeling of seeing: Factical life in salsa dance. Phenomenology & Practice, 11(1), 58–71.
Lloyd, R. J. (2021). The power of interactive flow in salsa dance: A motion-sensing phenomenological inquiry featuring two-time world champion, Anya Katsevman. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(6), 955–971.
Lloyd, R. & Smith, S. (2021). A Practical introduction to motion-sensing phenomenology. PHEnex journal/revue phénEPS, 11(2), 1-18.
Lloyd, R. J., & Smith, S. J. (2022). Becoming InterActive for life: Mobilizing relational knowledge for physical educators. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3.
Sheets-Johnstone, M. (2015). Embodiment on trial: A phenomenological investigation. Continental Philosophy Review, 48(1), 23–39.
Sheets-Johnstone, M. (2019). The lived body. The Humanistic Psychologist, Advanced Online Publication, 1–26.
Smith S. J., & Lloyd R. J. (2006). Promoting vitality in health and physical education. Qualitative Health Research: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal, 16, 245-267.
Smith S. J. (2014). A pedagogy of vital contact. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 6, 233-246.
Smith, S. J., & Lloyd, R. J. (2020). Life phenomenology and relational flow. Qualitative Inquiry, 26(5), 538–543.
Stolz, S. A. (2015). Embodied learning. Educational Philosophy & Theory, 47(5), 474–487.
Doing Phenomenological Research
Bjorbækmo, W., Evensen, K. V., Groven, K. S., Rugseth, G., & Standal, Ø. F. (2018). Phenomenology of professional practices in education and health care: An empirical investigation. Phenomenology & Practice, 12(1), 18–30.
Halling, S., & Dahlberg, K. (2001). Human science research as the embodiment of openness: Swimming upstream in a technological culture. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 32(1), 12–21.
Saevi, T. (2013). Between being and knowing: Addressing the fundamental hesitation in hermeneutic phenomenological writing. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 13(1), 1–11.
Saevi, T. (2020). Phenomenological research is existential. Phenomenology & Practice, 15(2), 1–4.
Sheets-Johnstone, M. (2017). In praise of phenomenology. Phenomenology & Practice, 11(1), 5–17.
Rietmeijer, C. B. T., & Veen, M. (2022). Phenomenological research in health professions education: Tunneling from both ends. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 34(1), 113–121.
van Manen, M. (1984). “Practicing phenomenological writing,” Phenomenology + Pedagogy, University of Alberta, 2(1), 36-72.
van Manen, M. (1997). “From meaning to method,” Qualitative Health Research: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal, 7 (3), 345-369.
van Manen M., & van Manen, M. (2021). Doing phenomenological research and writing. Qualitative Health Research. 31(6), 1069-1082.
Feminist Phenomenologies
Cixous, H. (1987). Her presence through writing. The Literary Review, 30(3).
Fisher, L. (2010). Feminist phenomenological voices. Continental Philosophy Review, 43(1), 83–95.
Gardiner, R. A. (2018). Hannah and her sisters: Theorizing gender and leadership through the lens of feminist phenomenology. Leadership, 14(3), 291-306.
Simms, E. M., & Stawarska, B. (2013). Introduction: Concepts and methods in interdisciplinary feminist phenomenology. Janus Head, 13(1), 6-16.
Stoller, S. (2013). The indeterminable gender: Ethics in feminist phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism. Janus Head, 13(1), 17-34.
Teaching & Learning Phenomenology
Adams, C., & van Manen, M. A. (2017). Teaching phenomenological research and writing. Qualitative Health Research, 27(6), 780–791.
Churchill, S. D. (2012). Teaching phenomenology by way of “second-person perspectivity” (from my thirty years at the University of Dallas). Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 12(sup3), 1–14.
Churchill, S. D. (2018). Explorations in teaching the phenomenological method: Challenging psychology students to “grasp at meaning” in human science research. Qualitative Psychology (Washington, D.C.), 5(2), 207–227.
Hultgreen, F. H. (1995). The phenomenology of “doing” phenomenology: The experience of teaching and learning together. Human Studies, 18(4), 371–388.
Stolz, S. A. (2023). The practice of phenomenology in educational research. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(7), 822–834.