ABSTRACT

I have entitled this chapter “phenomenographic approaches” because increasingly, research projects are inspired by phenomenography but not faithful to its “pure” form.

Appeal Phenomenography enables the researcher to identify the range of different ways in which people understand and experience the same thing. For instance, phenomenographic findings can expose to teachers how students attempt mastery of particular concepts in their subject. Since some of these attempts are likely to be more effective than others, the appeal of phenomenography lays in the support it can offer to curriculum design (Orgill, 2008).