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- Title
Discovering Meaning-Making in a Child Custody Context: The Combined Benefits of Using van Manen's Phenomenology and a Critical Lens.
- Authors
Archer-Kuhn, Beth
- Abstract
Phenomenology as a methodology reveals lived experience (van Manen, 2017); as such, it is an excellent methodology to help us understand the parent perceptions and experiences of child custody decision-making. Qualitative researchers have explored the ways in which lived experience is influenced by issues of culture and gender (Kall & Zeiler, 2014). In this paper, I explain how the key tenets of phenomenology, epoché and reduction, revealed the importance of custody status for participants, and also discuss how differences in gender was rendered invisible in the initial analysis. The flexible nature of phenomenology allowed me to use a critical lens after the initial analysis to consider another understanding of the parent experience, while still revealing lived experience. These new understandings better position us for social justice work.
- Subjects
CUSTODY of children; PHENOMENOLOGY; DECISION making; SOCIAL justice; CRITICAL theory
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2018, Vol 23, Issue 8, p1822
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Article